On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 10:54:00AM -0600, Kevin Hilton wrote:
> I currently compiling from git on ubuntu. The program does compile
> successfully, however after I update from git, I too am receiving this
> error:
>
> ./configure: line 21667: syntax error near unexpected token
> `-fvisibility=hidden,'
> ./configure: line 21667: `AX_C_CHECK_FLAG(-fvisibility=hidden, , ,'
Sometimes autoconf and friends "overlook" the extra files in the m4 directory.
> Just as the other poster, as a work-around for the error, I deleted
> the entire local repository tree, redownloaded the source, and was
> then able to compile. A suggestion was that the ./buildgen.sh
> cleanall wasn't successfully cleaning everything.
>
> Does anyone have another suggestion, since obviously updating and
> compiling from repository is a lot easier and more efficient than
> having to download the entire source everytime?
If you're using git, you can force a clean tree with:
git clean -xdf
Then buildgen.sh as normal.
Make sure that you really want a clean tree before running that though. :-)
- Chris
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