build fails on centos6

[jcupitt]

Hi, we are having trouble installing libvips on CentOS 6,

Any chance you will put a new tarball on the website soon?

This is what we are getting:

./bootstrap.sh
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/aclocal/isc-posix.m4': No such file or directory
testing for glibtoolize ...
using libtoolize
Copying file mkinstalldirs
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/.

configure.in:91: installing `./config.guess'
configure.in:91: installing `./config.sub'
configure.in:12: installing `./install-sh'
configure.in:12: installing `./missing'
gtk-doc.make:55: GTK_DOC_BUILD_HTML does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
doc/reference/Makefile.am:89:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here
gtk-doc.make:60: GTK_DOC_BUILD_PDF does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
doc/reference/Makefile.am:89:   `gtk-doc.make' included from here
libvips/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
swig/vipsCC/Makefile.am:13: installing `./py-compile'

and then this when compiling from source (the old 7.30.6 from web):

checking for THREADS... ./configure: line 22756: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
./configure: line 22756: `else'

I finally feel quite comfortable getting VIPS to work on Debian based distributions, but this is Amazon Linux which is very close to Cent OS 6 and I have noc lue what is going on, it's like a different world :( .

[jcupitt]

It was working on Centos5 (eg. see #20), I wonder what's different here.

Could you be missing a package? Do you have gtk-doc-am, the automake macros for gtk-doc?

[fuho]

I don't think gtk-doc-am is there, when I try sudo yum install gtk-doc-am, it tells me that package of that name is not avalable.

[jcupitt]

I've made a fresh tarball for you:

http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/development/vips-7.31.0.tar.gz

Does that help?

[fuho]

Thank you very much, I will try to use it as soon as possible.

[jcupitt]

There was a problem with the new 7.32 threading stuff on centos5, it should be fixed now.

http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/7.32/vips-7.32.4.tar.gz

[Qubitium]

Centos 6 requires newer version of Autotools and Automake and the above autogen script errors will go away.