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eMan

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From: Esfahan

Registered: 2010-08-16

Posts: 51

Problem with installing Open box on Arch (SOLVED)

Hi there
I have a problem with compiling open box in archlinux
I install the arch and now I want to install openbox but I face this error

[eman@eMan-PC openbox]$ ./bootstrap 
+ autopoint --force
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file config.rpath
Copying file m4/codeset.m4
Copying file m4/gettext.m4
Copying file m4/glibc2.m4
Copying file m4/glibc21.m4
Copying file m4/iconv.m4
Copying file m4/intdiv0.m4
Copying file m4/intmax.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes-h.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes-pri.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes_h.m4
Copying file m4/lcmessage.m4
Copying file m4/lib-ld.m4
Copying file m4/lib-link.m4
Copying file m4/lib-prefix.m4
Copying file m4/lock.m4
Copying file m4/longdouble.m4
Copying file m4/longlong.m4
Copying file m4/nls.m4
Copying file m4/po.m4
Copying file m4/printf-posix.m4
Copying file m4/progtest.m4
Copying file m4/signed.m4
Copying file m4/size_max.m4
Copying file m4/stdint_h.m4
Copying file m4/uintmax_t.m4
Copying file m4/ulonglong.m4
Copying file m4/visibility.m4
Copying file m4/wchar_t.m4
Copying file m4/wint_t.m4
Copying file m4/xsize.m4
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Copying file po/Makevars.template
Copying file po/Rules-quot
Copying file po/boldquot.sed
Copying file po/en@boldquot.header
Copying file po/en@quot.header
Copying file po/insert-header.sin
Copying file po/quot.sed
Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
+ libtoolize --copy --force --automake
+ aclocal -I m4
+ autoconf
configure.ac:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
gure.ac:130: error:possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE

PLEASE HELP ME
I was trying to fix it for two hours with out any achievement

Last edited by eMan (2011-05-10 09:35:37)

vinayv

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 89

Re: Problem with installing Open box on Arch (SOLVED)

Please try web search before posting here.. I did a search for "configure.ac:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST" and got quite a few hits..
One link has the exact same error as you get.. Here is the link - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=63780
The solution given there is to install libtool and try again. Try that first..

Last edited by vinayv (2011-05-10 08:59:50)

eMan

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From: Esfahan

Registered: 2010-08-16

Posts: 51

Re: Problem with installing Open box on Arch (SOLVED)

Thanks for greeting
But it doesn't change any thing
I installed these pkg before you warn me
#pacman -S gcc autoconf automake glib2 pango startup-notification libxcursor libxfixes libsm libxml2 cvs m4 libtool
But it was my fault
I must say that which packages I installed
Thank you

Last edited by eMan (2011-05-10 09:05:34)

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Problem with installing Open box on Arch (SOLVED)

Openbox is in the repositories - there is no need to compile it (and, if you are new to Arch, you should use pacman to install applications until you are familiar with your system).

Follow the wiki instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox

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admiralspark

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Registered: 2011-01-07

Posts: 87

Re: Problem with installing Open box on Arch (SOLVED)

Total curiosity, and sorry to threadjack if it's seen as such....but why aren't you using a simple 'pacman -S openbox' and installing the precompiled binaries? I mean, I left gentoo because I hated recompiling my DE every week, there really isn't a noticeable speedboost from it...

EDIT: 30 seconds too slow!

Last edited by admiralspark (2011-05-10 09:13:11)

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eMan

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From: Esfahan

Registered: 2010-08-16

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Re: Problem with installing Open box on Arch (SOLVED)

Thank you for responds
I wanna compile this because I'm writing an instruction for Persian Linux users ( all distributions )
any way thank you All
I finally find the solution accidentally
I must install these packages ( I forgot to install make and pkg-config)
for other that want to compile openbox on Arch
use this command
#pacman -S gcc autoconf automake glib2 pango startup-notification libxcursor libxfixes libsm libxml2 cvs m4 libtool pkg-config make
If I have any problem I will ask you
so please ANSWER

Last edited by eMan (2011-05-10 09:20:45)

vinayv

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From: Bangalore, India

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Re: Problem with installing Open box on Arch (SOLVED)

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