Bryce Harrington wrote:
configure.in:25: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found
You're doing nothing wrong; this is an automake quirk. I've documented the work around to this and a couple other issues you may run into after this on the CompilingInkscape page in Inkscape's Wiki, so go check that out. (Basically, copy that file from its cannonical location - see the wiki page for details).
Good luck, and welcome aboard! :-)
Bryce
On http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingInkscape , section "Developer Compilation", I added "libtoolize --copy --force" (that's Revision 58 of CompilingInkscape) to the example after finding out somewhere that this solves the problem. (At least it did for me.) This line might need to be added to other sections (the missing ltmain.sh seems to be described there though) and INSTALL as well...
Unfortunately (?) by looking for this solution I also found out that I'm not the only one not being able to fully understand the autotools - it's sadly rather the other way round as it seems - i.e., almost nobody seems to understand it.
In summary (describing what I remember from some articles I read), automake seems to be the most troublesome of the autotools toolchain, but you can't really replace it or the toolchain because there's already so terribly much work and knowledge invested into it so that newer autotools replacements are automatically disqualified because of their recency.
What do you folks think? Was there already a discussion on shifting the Inkscape build environment to something else on Jabber / this list / somewhere else? What was the result?
cu, - Felix