[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: transmission make failure

[Mats Bertil Tegner]

On 2014-09-02 20:59, Yavor Atanasov wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     Just try to upgrade my transmission package with sboupgrade and
>     everything go fine until start compiling - then i get and error for
>     missing aclocal and make error 127... Using Slackware 14.1. I
>     posting here the error...
>     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     configure: creating ./config.status
>     config.status: creating Makefile
>     config.status: creating transmission-gtk.spec
>     config.status: creating cli/Makefile
>     config.status: creating daemon/Makefile
>     config.status: creating extras/Makefile
>     config.status: creating libtransmission/Makefile
>     config.status: creating utils/Makefile
>     config.status: creating third-party/Makefile
>     config.status: creating third-party/dht/Makefile
>     config.status: creating third-party/libutp/Makefile
>     config.status: creating third-party/libnatpmp/Makefile
>     config.status: creating third-party/miniupnp/Makefile
>     config.status: creating macosx/Makefile
>     config.status: creating gtk/Makefile
>     config.status: creating gtk/icons/Makefile
>     config.status: creating qt/config.pri
>     config.status: creating web/Makefile
>     config.status: creating web/images/Makefile
>     config.status: creating web/style/Makefile
>     config.status: creating web/style/jqueryui/Makefile
>     config.status: creating web/style/jqueryui/images/Makefile
>     config.status: creating web/style/transmission/Makefile
>     config.status: creating web/style/transmission/images/Makefile
>     config.status: creating web/style/transmission/images/buttons/Makefile
>     config.status: creating web/javascript/Makefile
>     config.status: creating web/javascript/jquery/Makefile
>     config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
>     config.status: executing depfiles commands
>     config.status: executing libtool commands
>     config.status: executing default-1 commands
>     config.status: executing po/stamp-it commands
>
>     Configuration:
>
>         Source code location:                              .
>         Compiler:
>     i486-slackware-linux-g++
>
>         Build libtransmission:                             yes
>            * optimized for low-resource systems:           no
>            * µTP enabled:                                  yes
>
>         Build Command-Line client:                         yes
>
>         Build GTK+ client:                                 yes
>            * libappindicator for an Ubuntu-style tray:     no
>
>         Build Daemon:                                      yes
>
>         Build Mac client:                                  no
>
>
>     CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh
>     /tmp/SBo/transmission-2.84/missing aclocal-1.14 -I m4
>     /tmp/SBo/transmission-2.84/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.14: command
>     not found
>     WARNING: 'aclocal-1.14' is missing on your system.
>               You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
>               'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
>               The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
>               <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
>               It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to
>     run:
>               <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
>               <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
>               <http://www.perl.org/>
>     make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127
>     Failures:
>        transmission: transmission.SlackBuild return non-zero
>     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Any help will be appreciated guys... :-)

Hello,
You'll need to upgrade to automake 1.14.1 in order to build transmission 
2.84. The following line also needs to be added to the SlackBuild 
otherwise building the Qt-client will fail with Qt4:

sed -i '/^CONFIG/aQMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -std=c++11' qt/qtr.pro

Mats