Sometimes, depending on what other packages you've installed or compiled or upgraded, you may run into problems during the autogen.sh script. Some symptoms of these problems look like:
./autogen.sh
[...snip...]
Running aclocal -I macros ...
aclocal: configure.in: 13: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
aclocal: configure.in: 19: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library
aclocal: configure.in: 19: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library
[...snip...]
This is caused when the aclocal program cannot find all the required m4 macro files. In this case, we have installed or upgraded software packages into the /usr/local directory hierarchy. However, aclocal is only looking in the standard /usr/share/aclocal directory and the local ./macros directory. We need to tell aclocal to look in the /usr/local/share/aclocal directory for user-installed files:
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I /usr/local/share/aclocal' |
./autogen.sh |
This should lead to a successful install.