[gst-devel] Greetings

[Scott McCaskill]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Wim Taymans wrote:

> > 
> > Some brief background about myself:  I currently work for a game company,
> > and have for several years (prior to that I worked for a company that made
> > things like flight simulators).  Most of my experience is with real time
> > 3d graphics, but I have done some work with audio here and there as well.
> > I've used and written code for IRIX, linux, and windows, and several game
> > console platforms, roughly in that order.  Here at home I have win98, NT,
> > and linux (RH 6.0).
> > 
> > I _think_ I have downloaded and installed everything I should need, but
> 
> Do you have the CVS version or the 0.0.9 tar.gz? 
> 

cvs

> > I'm having a few problems building gstreamer.  Since there is no
> > 'configure' script checked into the tree, I tried running autogen.sh (a
> > total guess on my part).  First it told me I needed libtool 1.2 or newer,
> > so I got 1.3.  I then ran autogen.sh again and it bombed out around here:
> > `
> > autoconf: Undefined macros:
> > configure.in:38:AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
> > Recursively running autogen.sh in plugins/mp3decode/xing/libxing/
> > You should add the contents of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
> > `aclocal.m4'.
> > aclocal: configure.in: 33: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
> > loading cache ./config.cache
> > ./configure: syntax error near unexpected token
> > `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
> > ./configure: ./configure: line 537: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
> > 
> > Any ideas?  I looked at the file it said I needed to modify, but its
> > contents are already a superset of the file it says I need to add from
> > (well, assuming I was looking at the right file.. it didn't say where
> > aclocal.m4 was, so I assumed somewhere under /usr/local/share).
> 
> I'm using:
> 
>  autoconf 2.13
>  automake 1.4
>  libtool 1.2f
> 
> Could you try again with at least these versions? (I think your autoconf is
> not up to date)
> 

I will make sure everything is up to date and try again tonight.  thanks!