[SOLVED] Error while installing Evince

PenguinWearsFedora · 10-04-2011, 07:29 AM

Hello,

I've Slackware 13.37 (2.6.37.6-smp) installed with Xfce (Installed everything except KDE). I'm trying to install Evince, since CPU usage goes really high when I try to scroll pages on Xpdf. So decided to give Evince a go after reading this, using Slackbuilds.

But I get following error when installing:

Code:

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configure.ac:56: the top level
configure.ac:62: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2662: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2679: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:1022: _LT_SYS_MODULE_PATH_AIX is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:5340: _LT_LANG_CXX_CONFIG is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:785: _LT_LANG is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:768: LT_LANG is expanded from...
configure.ac:62: the top level
configure.ac:328: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

One forum suggested to check if libtools is installed. I've checked and it is installed (libtool-2.4-i486-1).

Any idea how it can be resolved?

Thanks.

Nylex · 10-04-2011, 07:32 AM

I got the SlackBuild to work by commenting out the line

Code:

autoreconf # we need to do this after the poppler api update patch

I could have sworn that I told the maintainer about this, but possibly not.

fgcl2k · 10-05-2011, 02:36 AM

I got evince from SBO to build successfully with 13.37. I had the same libtool warnings as you but I think they are harmless. The real problem is, in my opinion, the error about AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2.
The evince.SlackBuild from SBO (at least the one that I have) passes the

Code:

--without-gconf

option to configure.
It looks like you are not passing this parameter in the SlackBuild and are building with GConf enabled (I have not tried this.)

Edit: I have successfully rebuilt the package with the --with-gconf option. Of course I have the GConf package installed, which installs the file "/usr/share/aclocal/gconf-2.m4" where the AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2 macro is defined.

P.S. Do you have the GConf package installed?

PenguinWearsFedora · 10-12-2011, 01:51 PM

Thanks for your help guys. I've tried first tried Nylex's suggestion which worked. But then installed Awn and Emerlad for which I needed GConf. So I removed and installed Evince again. It's working perfectly. Thanks fgcl2k.

We can mark this SOLVED now.