[bt-devel] KDE, Slackware, BibleTime

[Jeffrey Hoyt]

Joachim, thanks for getting back to me on this.  Just today I compiled 
Autoconf 2.13, and now BT (and anything KDE I've tried) compiles just fine.

Thanks again!
Jeff

Joachim Ansorg wrote:

>Hi Jeff!
>
>>Hi, I'm finally back using Linux (Slackware 8) again!  I'm having the
>>problem as noted on the BT website with Autoconf.  However, this is a
>>problem trying to compile all KDE 2 apps : they all give the same
>>errors.  Does anybody know what I should do?  Compile an older version
>>of Autoconf?
>>
>
>I had a look in the forum of Slackware.com.
>There were different solutions posted for this problem:
>
>The first solution is to execute the following command before running "make 
>-f Makefile.cvs".
>	export M4="m4 --nesting-limit=500"
>I hope this works. Could you please test this?
>(This solution did _not_ work on my side with an (for testing) installed 
>autoconf 2.5).
>
>The second solution is installing autoconf 2.13 (e.g. from an older Slackware 
>version like 7.1.)
>
>>Also, what is the URL of the Sword Alpha site?  I would like to start
>>doing CVS updates again.
>>
>
>1.5.2 is enough for the current HEAD branch. On BibleTime sourceforge page 
>should be some information in the documentation section how to get Sword's 
>CVS.
>
>
>Joachim
>
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