Re: Problem for testgtk build

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <4aa7c397$0$2859$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>,
 Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com> wrote:

> John B. Matthews wrote:
> > In this context, I think it means that you have run ./configure, which 
> > is part the GNU Autotools. This is an initial step that creates the 
> > actual Makfile(s) when building GtkAda from source.
> > 
> > Testgtk is typically installed in the shared examples directory:
> > 
> > $PREFIX/share/examples/gtkada/testgtk
> > 
> > [$PREFIX is wherever aptitude put GtkAda.]
> > 
> Thanks John for helping me.
> I do not want to build libgtkada as it is already installed !
> I have succeed to compile small gtkada demos so everything should work.
> 
> I just want to build the complete testgtk project, but I see no 
> ./configure under the testgtk directory.

I think I understand. The problem is that testgtk is not a standalone 
project: the Makefile for testgtk doesn't exist until you run 
./configure. First, check that it's not already installed in the shared 
examples directory, as suggested above.

Failing that, you might be able to download the GtkAda source, run 
./configure using the --prefix option to point to your existing 
installation, then cd into testgtk to run the freshly minted Makefile. 
You might also look at `./configure --help`.

I don't think you can hurt anything that `apt-get install` can't fix, 
but there's a lot I don't know about Autotools. FWIW, here's my notes 
for building GtkAda on Mac OS X:

<http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/gtk/lady.html>

-- 
John B. Matthews
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