compile error

[Andreas Gebhardt]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Version: pidgin_2.4.0-1ubuntu1

make[5]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/home/agebhar1/Desktop/debian/pidgin/pidgin-2.4.0/build/libpurple/gconf'
LC_ALL=C ../../intltool-merge -s -u -c ../../po/.intltool-merge-cache ../../../po ../../../libpurple/gconf/purple.schemas.in purple.schemas
Possible unintended interpolation of @INTLTOOL_ICONV in string at ../../intltool-merge line 96.
Global symbol "@INTLTOOL_ICONV" requires explicit package name at ../../intltool-merge line 96.
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at ../../intltool-merge line 263.
make[5]: *** [purple.schemas] Fehler 9
make[5]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/agebhar1/Desktop/debian/pidgin/pidgin-2.4.0/build/libpurple/gconf'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[4]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/agebhar1/Desktop/debian/pidgin/pidgin-2.4.0/build/libpurple'
make[3]: *** [all] Fehler 2
make[3]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/agebhar1/Desktop/debian/pidgin/pidgin-2.4.0/build/libpurple'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/agebhar1/Desktop/debian/pidgin/pidgin-2.4.0/build'
make[1]: *** [all] Fehler 2
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/agebhar1/Desktop/debian/pidgin/pidgin-2.4.0/build'
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@INTLTOOL_ICONV@ is not substituted in build/intltool-merge from intltool-merge.in

[arno_b (arno.b)]

What have you done? Did you compile sources from the Pidgin website?
Which Ubuntu version do you use?

[epaulin (epaulin)]

I confirmed this on Ubuntu 8.04 64bit hardy

How to repeat:

 * apt-get build-dep pidgin
 * apt-get source pidgin
 * cd pidgin-2.4.1/
 * dpkg-buildpackage -b

[Florian Kisser (flok)]

me too :(
While making intltool-merge from intltool-merge.in, on line 96 "@INTLTOOL_ICONV@" isn't replaced by whatever it's meant to be replaced.
Of course executing intltool-merge (a perl script) fails then.

[Florian Kisser (flok)]

Oh sry, just saw that what I wrote already stands in the original description.

But I have other news:
As the trac instance of pidgin.im tells me, it's an autotools bug (http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1595).
And indeed, after I replaced automake 1.10 with automake 1.09 pidgin compiled.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is because you get autotools installed and run locally at build time, not really an ubuntu bug, you can run autoreconf to workaround it for example