I got a bit farther with it. It wants kdebase-dev for the x-includes. But still no joy. Thanks for trying. It sounds like the problem is with the source rather than some peculiarity with VirtualBox. I'll try to raise the developer and see about getting a fresh copy from CVS.
Best regards, Marbux On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running Ubuntu gutsy 7.10. > Downloaded and unpacked knowit-0.11a1.tar.bz2 > Installed g++. > Noticed despite the INSTALL file, no configure script included. > Installed autoconf. > $ autoconf configure.in > $ sh ./configure > checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > ./configure: line 1868: syntax error near unexpected token `knowit,' > ./configure: line 1868: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(knowit, 0.11alpha1)' > > I don't know what language they are trying to program in there > at line 1868 but I don't recognize it. The configure script > doesn't make sense. Giving up. > -- > Allen Brown > http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown > >> Would someone with a recent Debian based OS mind trying to build an >> app from source and give me a pointer or two? The app is Knowit, >> <http://knowit.sourceforge.net/download.php>, and I wish to build the >> 0.11a unstable version from source. >> >> I want the particular build because the deb package of the stable 0.10 >> version is less than stable. I have previously built the 0.11a version >> from source on Mepis 6.0 and reconfirmed today that I still can using >> the same "make" command line given on the download page . The 0.11a >> version when built from source is far more stable than version 0.10 >> and cleans up a couple of critical bugs. >> >> I'm amidst setting up two virtual appliances running on a WinXP host >> system using VirtualBox. One is for Mepis 7.0 and the other is for >> Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy running as guests. No problems so far other than >> the Knowit compilation (although I have not yet got to the stage of >> getting the host and guests talking to each other.) I've installed >> autoconf and build-essential on both appliances. >> >> If I try to build KnowIt 0.11a from source with either of those >> distributions, I get nothing but error messages and am having no luck >> tracking down a fix for my issues. Given that I can build the app >> using Mepis 6.0 and not the later flavors of Debian, I'm wondering if >> I might need an older version of autoconf or some such. But I don't >> build apps from source often enough to tell whether that might fix my >> problem or whether installing the older version of autoconf might >> screw up the system in other ways. >> >> I'd appreciate any help here. Without going into details, I've reached >> a stage of aging where I really need an outliner in organizing my >> thoughts and notes. I've been using Knowit for 2+ years because of a >> particular mix of features that make it the best around for my >> particular purposes. So this is rather mission-critical for me. If >> necessary, I can scrap Mepis 7 and Kubuntu 8.04, sticking with Mepis >> 6. But given that I'm setting up a new system, I'd like to start with >> the latest and greatest. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Marbux >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
