how to build from svn repo

[superawx]

hi!
can anyone please tell me step-by-step how to build firefly
on a linux machine from the svn repository?
when i try a:

svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mt-daapd/trunk mt-daapd

i get the latest sources. and then?
there is no “configure” script in folder “mt-daapd”
please help
greetz
awx

[LeoD]

Line 3 of configure.in says:

dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.

Although I can’t remember I did that, I do have a working ‘configure’
in my build directory. You may have to install additional header packages and other stuff to get mt-daapd to build, but repeated calls of ‘configure’ will tell you what you need.
I use
./configure –enable-sqlite3 –enable-flac –prefix=/usr
on my debian system (SLUG), for example.
Good luck.

PS.: I recommend svn1735 / release-1.2-pre which is rock solid for me on both Windows and debian, and scans my music really fast.

[superawx]

@LeoD:
thanks, i tried to run “autoconf ./configure.in >configure” and that produces the configure script and the following console output:
— snip —
configure.in:494: warning: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX is m4_require’d but not m4_defun’d
m4/iconv.m4:9: AM_ICONV_LINKFLAGS_BODY is expanded from…
m4/iconv.m4:20: AM_ICONV_LINK is expanded from…
m4/iconv.m4:75: AM_ICONV is expanded from…
configure.in:494: the top level
configure.in:494: warning: AC_LIB_RPATH is m4_require’d but not m4_defun’d
-:25955: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
-:25956: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_RPATH
-:25961: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY
-:25969: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_APPENDTOVAR
— snip —

then i renamed “reconf.sh.templ” to “reconf.sh” and ran it.
the result is the same as above and also other files and symlinks are generated in my project directory.

when i try to run:
./configure prefix=/usr –enable-sqlite3 –enable-mdns –enable-flac –enable-oggvorbis

i get the following error:
— snip —
./configure: line 25961: syntax error near unexpected token `iconv’
./configure: line 25961: ` AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY(iconv)’
— snip —

can anyone please help me?
what is the right way to generate the required scripts and links?
thanks in advance
awx

[LeoD]

Hm, try apt-get install m4 and then run autoconf again.

Use http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages to search for packages matching any further error messages (*-dev usually contain additional header files needed for compiling). At least that’s what I did then.

When Lenny gets stable I will reinstall my SLUG and write down what I need to do/install to get firefly compiled again and post that somewhere here if anyone should still be interested.

[superawx]

ha! got it!
“apt-get install gettext” solved the errors.
thanks for your effort.

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