I have not been able to build from CVS. This is on a Debian system. Some notes follow.
date Fri Oct 31 18:20:57 MST 2003 export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs at ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk:/usr/local/cvsroot cvs login # when it asks for a password, press return cvs -z3 co Scribus cd Scribus make -f Makefile.dist # see errors below ./configure make # see errors below ================== output from make -f Makefile.dist This Makefile is only for the CVS repository This will be deleted before making the distribution *** Creating acinclude.m4 !!! If you get recursion errors from autoconf, it is advisable to set the environment variable M4 to something including "--nesting-limit=500" *** Creating aclocal.m4 *** Creating configure *** Creating config.h template *** Creating Makefile templates scribus/Makefile.am:131: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' scribus/libabout/Makefile.am:15: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' scribus/libprefs/Makefile.am:15: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' scribus/plugins/libchar/Makefile.am:16: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' scribus/plugins/svgexplugin/Makefile.am:5: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' scribus/plugins/svgimplugin/Makefile.am:5: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' scribus/plugins/printpreview/Makefile.am:16: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/Makefile.am:11: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' scribus/libpostscript/Makefile.am:23: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' scribus/libpdf/Makefile.am:24: invalid unused variable name: `AM_LDFLAGS' ============================ Output from make cd . && autoheader make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/craig/src/Scribus' Making all in scribus make[2]: Entering directory `/home/craig/src/Scribus/scribus' Making all in icons make[3]: Entering directory `/home/craig/src/Scribus/scribus/icons' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/craig/src/Scribus/scribus/icons' Making all in libabout make[3]: Entering directory `/home/craig/src/Scribus/scribus/libabout' /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/qt -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -c about.cpp mkdir .libs g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/qt -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -Wp,-MD,.deps/about.pp -c about.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/about.o about.cpp:2:21: about.moc: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [about.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/craig/src/Scribus/scribus/libabout' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/craig/src/Scribus/scribus' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/craig/src/Scribus' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 output of dpkg -l ||/ Name Version Description +++-=================-=================-==================================== ============== ii libqt3-mt-dev 3.2.1-6 Qt development files (Threaded) ii gcc-3.3 3.3.2-1 The GNU C compiler ii autoconf 2.57-11 automatic configure script builder ii m4 1.4-17 a macro processing language ii make 3.80-4 The GNU version of the "make" utility. ii automake 1.4-p4-1.1 A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Make
