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Reputation: 3782

config.status: error: cannot find input file: `po/Makefile.in.in'

I hit this error message while trying to build gnote using GNU Autotools.

I had first run:

$ git clean -xf    # to clean the tree of untracked files, then
$ autoreconf       # to create the script named `configure`, and finally 
$ ./configure      # to check my system, and create Makefiles from their templates

Neither po/Makefile.in.in nor po/Makefile.in exist in the source tree that I downloaded.

Yet configure needs to make this po/Makefile, as called for in the root Makefile.am in this line:

SUBDIRS = data src po help

Where do I get, or how do I make, po/Makefile.in.in?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9548

Answers (2)

ndim
ndim

Reputation: 37807

Like all Gnome related packages, gnote uses many steps of buildsystem setup beyond just running autoreconf.

The autogen.sh script gnote comes with should run all the required steps to set up the buildsystem.

As usual, run the autogen.sh script with the --help parameter if you want to call configure separately.

Upvotes: 4

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Reputation: 3782

po/Makefile.in.in is created by running intltoolize from the intltool package. It needs to be run from the project tree's root directory.

There isn't much documentation on intltoolize that I could find except for the brief man page, but it's source code says that that it's a fork of an older utility called libtoolize, and it's a relatively short script.

(BTW, if you don't already have intltoolize installed, you can figure out which package installs it, with this: sudo apt-file find intltoolize.)

*.in files are templates used by AutoMake to create a Makefile.

.in.in is a soft link to /usr/share/intltool/Makefile.in.in.

Upvotes: 1

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