On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Hans Breuer wrote: > To get an educated opinion about the other way to build The GIMP > on win32 I've tried an succeeded to build the dependencies from > cvs following Owen's description from > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-January/msg00091.html > > But The GIMP's build fails without giving me any clu how to fix it. > Can anybody tell me what's going wrong? > > /tmp/am4t5200.1592/traces.m4:1384: /bin/m4: Error matching regular expression "^ *\(.*\) *$" > Use of uninitialized value in split at /bin/automake-1.7 line 5077, <GEN0> line 413. > automake-1.7: no `Makefile.am' found or specified > Hi, I've found that using the latest version of automake and autoconf will solve this problem. Also, this page might help you: http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp_2fMicrosoftWindows The wiki-page is great, but I think it could be even more specific in some areas. Andreas Røsdal
