Re: NA Glib-0.24 i686-linux 2.4.18-14

[Ken Williams <ken mathforum org>]

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 08:01  AM, muppet wrote:

> > On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 03:34  AM, slaven rezic de wrote:
> > > Can't build Glib:
> > >
> > > $ make
> > > /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/xsubpp   
> > > -typemap
> > > /usr/lo
> > > cal/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap
> > > /usr/local/dist/cpan/build/Glib-0.
> > > 24/typemap -typemap typemap  GValue.xs > GValue.xsc && mv GValue.xsc
> > > GValue.c
> > > Didn't find a 'MODULE ... PACKAGE ... PREFIX' line
> > > make: *** [GValue.c] Error 25
> > >
> > > This is probably due to the installed ExtUtils::ParseXS, which 
> > > installs
> > > the standard ExtUtils/xsubpp.
>
> we've been developing Glib/Gtk2 against stock perl 5.8.0.  this has 
> nothing to
> do with the xsubpp patch i posted, which changes the error report 
> format and
> keeps the directory path on the filename for correct #line directive 
> output.


http://search.cpan.org/src/JHI/perl-5.8.0/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp and
http://search.cpan.org/src/GSAR/perl-5.6.1/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp both 
appear to exit if a MODULE ... PACKAGE ... PREFIX line isn't found, 
though I haven't actually run the code to find out.

 -Ken