[parted-devel] ERROR during running ./bootstrap from checked out sources

[Jim Meyering]

Rohit Hooda wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:
>
>> Joel Granados wrote:
>> > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 07:14:30PM +0530, rohit hooda wrote:
>> >> I have checked out a the parted sources and was trying to build them.
>> >> When I try to run ./bootstrap I get the following errors and I am not
>> able to proceed.
>> ...
>> >> I am using FC9 and my system is update with the latest updates. BTW, I
>> was able to successfully compile it inside a FC11 Virtual Machine.
>> >
>> > This ^^^^^^^^^^^ is the culprit of your problem :)  You must update to
>> > f11 (at least) to get all of the package versions that parted is
>> > currently using.  And even then I'd think you would be missing stuff
>> > like xz.
>> >
>> > Another thing you could do is to install autotools stuff from f11, while
>> > still keeping your f9 installation.
>>
>> If you want to develop on F9, you should be able to build/install the
>> tools from source, using this script:
>>
>>    http://et.redhat.com/~meyering/autotools-install<http://et.redhat.com/%7Emeyering/autotools-install>
>
> Thanks Jim for sharing your script, but this still isn't working for me.
>
> I took your script, I had to make the following change to make it run fully.
>
> [rhooda at maverick parted]$ diff autotools-install.old autotools-install
> 12c12
> <   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.64.tar.gz
> ---
>>   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.64.tar.gz

Thanks!  I've made that correction.

> After running I tried to run ./bootstrap again. It again failed with the
> same errors.
>
> After that I set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environ variable looking at the end of
> your script and also set the PATH variable accordingly, but still no
> success.

Did you start from a fresh clone or run
"git clean -x -d -f" ?