Srinidhi,

This is good information, thanks.  Do you have similar information on 
how to build the various clients, particularly the Windows client?

Regards,

Brad

On 6/4/2011 10:23 AM, Srinidhi B wrote:
>   >>>  On 6/4/2011 at 09:44 AM, Mark Garro<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm looking through the development list archive and noticing a lot of the
>> same questions that I have.  I've been able to install iFolder from the
>> OpenSUSE 11.3 repositories (even in a VirtualBox) that interacts with the
>> downloaded 64-bit version of the Windows client successfully.  Now that I
>> have a testing environment setup, I was hoping to compile iFolder and start
>> working on it.  Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me figure out why I
>> can't compile.  I downloaded the trunk from subversion and tried compiling
>> with "% sh autogen.sh" from the "ifolder" folder, but it's just not
>> working.  There are all sorts of errors, but probably the one that stands
>> out the most for me is that Makefile.in isn't being created from Makefile.ac
>> from autoconf.  Any ideas?  Any guides that aren't the broken links that are
>> available at the top of any Google search you try in this direction?
>>
>
> Before you try to build "ifolder", you need to build "simias". The command to 
> use for that is:
>
>      $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=<your-prefix-path>  --with-runasclient
>      $ make
>      $ make install
>
> Once you've installed simias, run the following commands to build ifolder:
>
>      $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=<same-prefix-path-as-simias>
>      $ make
>      $ make install
>
> If you're aware of autotools behavior, then you might know that if you don't 
> pass --prefix option, then built binaries will be copied under /usr/local/.
>
> There are quite a few dependencies for building simias and ifolder. Follow 
> the error messages in the output of "./autogen.sh" very closely. Install all 
> packages for which you receive an error.
>
> Regarding Makefile.in query of yours - this typically happens when autoconf / 
> automake encountered some errors. Look at the initial output of 
> "./autogen.sh" very closely - before you see a line like "Running ./configure 
> ...". Among one of those "WARNING:" lines, there will be a few which are 
> almost fatal - sorry, I can't help you much without those errors.
>
> If you still face problems, please attach the output of
>
>      $ ./autogen.sh [--prefix=..]>  autogen-sh.log 2>&1
>
> HTH,
> Srinidhi.
>
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