Hi, I'm currently working on NetworkManager, and I found an error that tells me that my "intltool" is too old.
The weird thing is: I don't even have an intltool on my system!

I am trying to link it with wpa_supplicant, dhcpcd, and iptables. I found that none of these has intltool in their dependency.

I am asking for your help and hoping that a solution will be found. Thank you in advance!

NetworkManager-0.9.6.0 > NetworkManager-0.9.6.0.tar.xz 07-Aug-2012
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sourc...rkManager/0.9/
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sourc...0.9.6.0.tar.xz

grep -n intltool configure
16795:$as_echo_n "checking for intltool >= 0.40.0... " >&6; }
16799: as_fn_error $? "Your intltool is too old. You need intltool 0.40.0 or later."

Looks like you will have to install intltool to build NetworkManager.

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intltool is part of the (recommended) dependencies:

NetworkManager-0.9.6.0 <- libsoup-2.38.1 <- glib-networking-2.32.3 <- gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.4.2 <- Intltool-0.50.2

I do wonder why it isn't a required dependency......

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Wow, that sure is a lot of work to do for libsoup...
Do you think it worth all the disk usage and installation procedure for libsoup or is it enough to install just intltool?
Also, I never ever use NLS.

You might try just installing Intltool-0.50.2 and let the recommended packages be.

But as you have already noticed, you might run into more of these unfulfilled dependencies. Which you can install one at the time. In the end you might just have to install just about all the recommended parts anyway (or you might not.......). Might be an interesting experiment.

If you have the time and disk space I would recommend installing the recommended dependencies.

Whatever you decide; Do remove the NetworkManager-0.9.6.0 source dir and start fresh after you added a missing dependency.

Thank you very much for the tip.
From here, I have come up with more questions:

First of all, why is intltool needed even though I'm not using NLS? I figured out that these have things to do with each other.
So I'm trying to make my distribution into two things: personal computer and server. Will these tools I'm about to put be any use?

If I look at the output of NetworkManager's ./configure --help, I do see this option: --disable-nls

I'm not sure if that is the option that depends on intltool, but give it a try.

I never install networkmanager, no need to and it only adds layer(s) of complexity.

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So I installed the intltool and the configure moves on.
However, it now requires me to install gudev-1.0. I think I give up on this.

Do you have an alternative? My goal is actually to have the WiFi network search.

Nope, I can only point you to this: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blf.../WirelessTools

I already have that.
Anyway, I still need to thank you for the help