Request for http://wiki.inkscape.org account, update to CompilingUbuntu wiki page
The wiki states that I should send an email to the dev list if I want a wiki account, so here is that email .
I just followed the compiling instructions at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I had to install the package "autopoint", which is not listed on that wiki page, to get the autogen.sh script working.
Anyone running Ubuntu Raring that can confirm that it's the same for later releases than 12.04?
Regards
Hi Christoffer,
I've updated the wiki so that it should work with the current trunk.
Cheers,
Alex
On 17 April 2013 15:34, Christoffer Holmstedt <christoffer.holmstedt@...400...> wrote:
The wiki states that I should send an email to the dev list if I want a wiki account, so here is that email .
I just followed the compiling instructions at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I had to install the package "autopoint", which is not listed on that wiki page, to get the autogen.sh script working.
Anyone running Ubuntu Raring that can confirm that it's the same for later releases than 12.04?
Regards
Christoffer Holmstedt
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On 17-Apr-2013 07:34, Christoffer Holmstedt wrote:
I just followed the compiling instructions at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu [1] on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I had to install the package "autopoint", which is not listed on that wiki page, to get the autogen.sh script working.
That was my experience as well. If memory serves there was some obscure error message, which when googled indicated that autopoint needed to be installed, which I did and that fixed it. The correct behavior, which is not what we have now, is that if a dependency is missing autogen.sh would stop and emit an error message: "Missing dependency. Inkscape requires XYZ" (here, xyz=autopoint).
Anyone running Ubuntu Raring that can confirm that its the same for later releases than 12.04?
Hard to imagine why the dependency would go away with later OS releases, although those might have autopoint installed by default, so that it might not ever be evident during a build that it was required.
Regards,
David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
Yes, we should put checks in the autogen.sh script to detect that all the required build tools are available... although the error message isn't all that obscure!
./autogen.sh: line 30: autopoint: command not found
AV
On 17 April 2013 16:47, mathog <mathog@...1176...> wrote:
On 17-Apr-2013 07:34, Christoffer Holmstedt wrote:
I just followed the compiling instructions at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu [1] on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I had to install the package "autopoint", which is not listed on that wiki page, to get the autogen.sh script working.
That was my experience as well. If memory serves there was some obscure error message, which when googled indicated that autopoint needed to be installed, which I did and that fixed it. The correct behavior, which is not what we have now, is that if a dependency is missing autogen.sh would stop and emit an error message: "Missing dependency. Inkscape requires XYZ" (here, xyz=autopoint).
Anyone running Ubuntu Raring that can confirm that its the same for later releases than 12.04?
Hard to imagine why the dependency would go away with later OS releases, although those might have autopoint installed by default, so that it might not ever be evident during a build that it was required.
Regards,
David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel
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