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Building Gnash from its bzr repository
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The source code of Gnash is checked into a bzr repository. (See the main
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web page for Gnash for the current details on where that repository is.)
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The instructions for building Gnash in README and INSTALL assume that
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you are starting from a released "tarball" (e.g. gnash-VERSION.tar.gz).
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The tarball contains some files that are not in the original source code
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in bzr. They are generated using tools that not everyone is expected
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to have. This simplifies the process of building Gnash releases, for
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People who are actively working on maintaining Gnash need to have these
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extra tools. They are used to build configuration files, international
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message translation catalogs, and such. After you check out the source
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code of Gnash from bzr, you'll have to run a single script that rebuilds
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all these files. This script is called "./autogen.sh", and it lives
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in the top-level directory of gnash. You run it without any arguments.
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When it finishes, you can run "./configure", with or without arguments,
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as instructed in the README and INSTALL files.
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A variety of GNU programs are required when checking out the
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bzr tree and building the auto-generated files. If anything is
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missing, ./autogen.sh will (probably) tell you, or produce a relatively
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understandable error message. When in doubt, look at the *first*
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error message. Here are the programs required:
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GNU Minimum RPM or DEB package names:
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Package Version Debian Ubuntu Fedora Gentoo
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automake 1.9.6 automake1.9 automake1.9 automake
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autoconf 2.59 autoconf autoconf
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gettext 0.14.6 gettext gettext
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libtool 1.5.22 libtool libtool
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1.5.22 libltdl3-dev libtool
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The "Minimum Version" is not necessarily the lowest version that will work;
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it's the lowest version that the Gnash team has recently tested with.
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(You'll also need some very common tools, for example the standard Unix/GNU
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core utilities (ls, mv); text utilities (grep, sed), and shell (sh).
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Unless your system is very unusual, these will already be installed.)
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The version dependencies among these tools are, unfortunately, more
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complicated than we can describe here. When ./autogen.sh is failing
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for you, either upgrade all the things in the above table to the latest
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version available (which may break other packages you're trying to build),
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or seek a compatible set of tools, perhaps the set that comes by default
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in your operating system (if any).
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If you are unable to run ./autogen.sh successfully on your system, consider
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building Gnash from a tarball release. Or, move the bzr tree to a system
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on which you can run ./autogen.sh successfully, then move it back to the
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system you are trying to build on.
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Once ./autogen.sh completes successfully, you can go on with the normal
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instructions found in the README file.