I cannot compile in FC4

[chr05210084]

Hi,

I hope you can help me compiling Xara Extreme LX in my fc4, I have all the package needed by Xara, but whenever I run this following comman it gives me an error.

[root@linux XaraLX-0.5r1175]# autoreconf -f -i
Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 288, <GEN0> line 305.
autoreconf: failed to run autopoint: No such file or directory

[root@linux XaraLX-0.5r1175]# sh autogen.sh
Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 288, <GEN0> line 305.

[penguin]

I work with kanotix, an ustable debian, and I don't need to compile xara.
I download this: » Download Xara LX (version 0.5 Revision 1199 Built 27-May-06 21:00) (Tar Bzip2 Archive - 15MB)
and unpack it.
Then I open the konquerer, go to "xaralx_0.5_revxxxx" -> xaralx -> bin and ther's an executable file. A click on it and xara runs. Or you link it to the desktop.

[BPFowler]

[root@linux XaraLX-0.5r1175]# sh autogen.sh
Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 288, <GEN0> line 305.

Do you have the correct version of gettext?

autopoint is an executable, and you may want to check that it is on your path with a command like:

$ which autopoint

It is possible that compiling on Fedora may need some specific settings as compared to other distributions of linux.

Ben

[chr05210084]

I think I have a later version of gettext

[BPFowler]

I believe that you need gettext (v0.14.3 or greater); If this version is not in your repository, you might want to consult with other Fedora users, or install gettext from source.

Ben

[Ska]

I got the same error on Fedora Core 5 and have gettext 0.14.5 installed:

[root@thirteen XaraLX-0.5r1323]# gettext --version
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.14.5

After screwing around I found out that Fedora (at least 5) puts autopoint in the gettext-devel package. So for me it was just a matter of

yum install gettext-devel

and then autoreconf -fis ran with no problems.

Hope this didn't come too late for ya...