Where is gnome-autogen.sh?

Where is gnome-autogen.sh?

[Adam Myrow]

Well, after I finally got Festival installed and working, I am trying to
build Gnopernicus so I can hopefully find out what it can really do.
Well, trying to compile the gnome-speech library got me nowhere.  The last
line of the autogen.sh script says USE_GNOME2_MACROS=1 . gnome-autogen.sh
which bombs because there is no file called gnome-autogen.sh.  Where is
that file?  Also, how can I make Festival sound less robotic?  It sounds
like a bored Chemistry professor right now.  I think I could use it to go
to sleep at night with its flat and slow speech.

Re: Where is gnome-autogen.sh?

[Jacob Schmude]

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Hi
You must get gnome common and compile it, with the prefix of /usr. That 
will give you
gnome-autogen.sh in your /usr/bin directory where slack 9 puts its gnome 
binaries.
If you're not using slackware 9 you'll have to find out where your gnome 
prefix is. Every gnome library must be compiled with the correct gnome 
prefix. Anyway, you need to also get intltool from the gnome site and 
compile it as well.
However, I've not gotten gnome-speech or gnome-mag to compile at all. 
Running the autogen.sh script on them gives me the following errors in the 
automake Makefile.am files:
LDFLAGS is a user variable, you should not change it, use AM_LDFLAGS instead
When I change the variable to AM_LDFLAGS, the resulting created Makefiles 
are empty. I'm running slack 9 now. I'll be trying rh9 here soon, maybe 
they'll compile on there. if they do then they either have rh-specific 
stuff in them, or slackware's automake is nonstandard. Have any other 
slackware or debian users gotten these to compile? I'd be interested to 
know if anyone on a distro other than rh has gnome-speech and gnome-mag 
compiled. Not sure if gnopernicus will compile or not, since without 
gnome-speech, I'll never find out.

At 12:31 5/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Well, after I finally got Festival installed and working, I am trying to
>build Gnopernicus so I can hopefully find out what it can really do.
>Well, trying to compile the gnome-speech library got me nowhere.  The last
>line of the autogen.sh script says USE_GNOME2_MACROS=1 . gnome-autogen.sh
>which bombs because there is no file called gnome-autogen.sh.

Re: Where is gnome-autogen.sh?

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  I use Debian.  I have no problems compiling gnome-speech or
gnopernicus.  For now, the gnopernicus program doesn't give much
feedback.  Messages on the gnome-accessibility list say my problem is
because I am using festival for my synth.  Unfortunately, I haven't
goten any of the other synth drivers to work yet.

          Kenny

On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 02:32:15PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi
> You must get gnome common and compile it, with the prefix of /usr. That 
> will give you
> gnome-autogen.sh in your /usr/bin directory where slack 9 puts its gnome 
> binaries.
> If you're not using slackware 9 you'll have to find out where your gnome 
> prefix is. Every gnome library must be compiled with the correct gnome 
> prefix. Anyway, you need to also get intltool from the gnome site and 
> compile it as well.
> However, I've not gotten gnome-speech or gnome-mag to compile at all. 
> Running the autogen.sh script on them gives me the following errors in the 
> automake Makefile.am files:
> LDFLAGS is a user variable, you should not change it, use AM_LDFLAGS instead
> When I change the variable to AM_LDFLAGS, the resulting created Makefiles 
> are empty. I'm running slack 9 now. I'll be trying rh9 here soon, maybe 
> they'll compile on there. if they do then they either have rh-specific 
> stuff in them, or slackware's automake is nonstandard. Have any other 
> slackware or debian users gotten these to compile? I'd be interested to 
> know if anyone on a distro other than rh has gnome-speech and gnome-mag 
> compiled. Not sure if gnopernicus will compile or not, since without 
> gnome-speech, I'll never find out.
> 
> At 12:31 5/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Well, after I finally got Festival installed and working, I am trying to
> >build Gnopernicus so I can hopefully find out what it can really do.
> >Well, trying to compile the gnome-speech library got me nowhere.  The last
> >line of the autogen.sh script says USE_GNOME2_MACROS=1 . gnome-autogen.sh
> >which bombs because there is no file called gnome-autogen.sh.

Re: Where is gnome-autogen.sh?

[Jacob Schmude]

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Hi
Hmm, wonder what slack9's problem is, then.      Do I need a newer version 
of automake or something? Any slackware users have any luck compiling 
these? I'm going to join gnome-accessibility and post this problem there, too.

At 14:25 5/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi.  I use Debian.  I have no problems compiling gnome-speech or
>gnopernicus.

Re: Where is gnome-autogen.sh?

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  People on the gnome-accessibility-list  say you need automake 1.7 as well
as automake 1.4.

You should go ahead and subscribe to the gnome-accessibility-list since
this is really off topic for speakup.  Besides, maybe if enough of us
get together and beat on it we can get gnopernicus doing
something.

          Kenny
	  
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 03:55:53PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi
> Hmm, wonder what slack9's problem is, then.      Do I need a newer version 
> of automake or something? Any slackware users have any luck compiling 
> these? I'm going to join gnome-accessibility and post this problem there, 
> too.
> 
> At 14:25 5/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Hi.  I use Debian.  I have no problems compiling gnome-speech or
> >gnopernicus.
> 
> 

Re: Where is gnome-autogen.sh?

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi, you are missing the gnome-common package. You'll need to get it from
cvs.
Hth.

Re: Where is gnome-autogen.sh?

[Toby Fisher]

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:

> Hi, you are missing the gnome-common package. You'll need to get it from
> cvs.
> Hth.

Yeah, that's what I tghought, but I get the following error, when running
the autogen.sh script in the gnome-common package:


**Error**: You must have `automake' installed to compile Gnome Skeleton.
Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake-1.3.tar.gz
(or a newer version if it is available)

Well, Slackware 9.0 comes with automake 1.7.3, but I downloaded another
copy and installed it into /usr/local, the original one is in /usr, so how
many more copies can the system possibly want?

Cheers.

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Re: Where is gnome-autogen.sh?

[Adam Myrow]

The problem I've discovered is that the autogen.sh and a lot of other
stuff seems to be hard-coded to use version 1.4 of automake and assumes
it's called automake-1.4.  I first tried editing various files, but I
couldn't find every reference to it.  Finally, I downloaded automake-1.4
and build it with "./configure --program-suffix=-1.4.".  Then, I did the
usual "make" and "make install" which put automake-1.4 in /usr/local/bin.
I still couldn't get it to build because it now wanted
/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 and couldn't find it.  I ended up
making a symbolic link from /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 to
/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4.  This gets me through gnome-common,
but I can't get any further because gnome-speech is looking for gnome-2.0
libraries.  On top of that, I built Festival and am now hearing that
Festival doesn't work properly with Gnopernicus despite what the web page
says.  I just got on the gnome-accessibility list and we'll see what I can
get from them.  I think that the whole demo on Main Menu was a really bad
idea because it gives the illusion that Gnopernicus is close to complete
when it looks like that is far from the truth.  No matter what, I'm bound
and determined to get it running.  I figure it's not going to get any
better without input from testers, and I have a strong desire to see Linux
become a viable alternative to Windows for everybody.