I installed the build tools: sudo apt install xfce4-dev-tools libglib2.0-dev-bin and ran the autoconf.sh script which seems to fail: <USERNAME>@laptop-linux:~/Downloads/temp/xfce4-screensaver-xfce4-screensaver-0.1.8$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc Preparing package directory /home/<USERNAME>/Downloads/temp/xfce4-screensaver-xfce4-screensaver-0.1.8... Running glib-gettextize --force --copy... Copying file po/Makefile.in.in Please add the files codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4 progtest.m4 from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory or directly to your aclocal.m4 file. You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/. Running intltoolize --automake --copy --force Patching file 'po/Makefile.in.in' Running libtoolize --force --copy... libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'. libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'. libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4' Running aclocal -I /usr/share/xfce4/dev-tools/m4macros -I /usr/share/xfce4/dev-tools/m4macros -I /usr/share/xfce4/dev-tools/m4macros -I /home/<USERNAME>/Downloads/temp/xfce4-screensaver-xfce4-screensaver-0.1.8/m4... Running autoheader... Running automake --force-missing --add-missing --copy --gnu... configure.ac:23: installing './compile' configure.ac:11: installing './missing' savers/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp' Running autoconf... Running /home/<USERNAME>/Downloads/temp/xfce4-screensaver-xfce4-screensaver-0.1.8/configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether UID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes checking whether GID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for intltool >= 0.50.1... 0.51.0 found checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.26.1 checking for XML::Parser... ok checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for dlltool... no checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n checking for ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for a working dd... /bin/dd checking how to truncate binary pipes... /bin/dd bs=4096 count=1 checking for mt... mt checking if mt is a manifest tool... no checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking locale.h usability... yes checking locale.h presence... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no checking libintl.h usability... yes checking libintl.h presence... yes checking for libintl.h... yes checking for ngettext in libc... yes checking for dgettext in libc... yes checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes checking for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for dcgettext... yes checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext ./configure: line 13788: syntax error near unexpected token `0.16' ./configure: line 13788: ` PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG(0.16)' What can I do to fix this?
Make sure you have all of the Debian build dependencies as seen here: https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-extras-team/xfce4-screensaver/blob/debian/master/debian/control#L6
Thanks, that did the trick! :) I had no ideas the build dependencies were defined in the file xfce4-screensaver/debian/control. How could I have known that, I mean how could I have found that missing piece of information by myself? Is this some kind of 'best practice' location within the sources where this information is stored, or is it something you came up with? Regards
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