Re: Compiling balsa against Gnome 1.4 on Solaris 8

["Warren Hughes - SolNet Ltd (Sun ISO)" <warren hughes newzealand sun com>]

Hi Pawel, thanks for the help, your patch for gconf worked and I found I
have some unusual version of libdb.xx.xx in another directory that was
in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Cheers again! Warren


Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2001-04-09 03:54 Warren Hughes - SolNet Ltd (Sun ISO) wrote:
> > Hi all, I am desp. to get a decent IMAP client that is not bloatware
> > or
> > crashware. When I compile Balsa 1.1.3 I get this:
> >
> > gcc -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -g -O2 -I/opt/gnome/include
> > [...]
> > -I/opt/gnome-1.4/include/gconf/1 -DGTKHTML_HAVE_GCONF -o balsa
> > -lICE -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -lresolv -lrt -laudiofile -ldb
> > [...]
> > -lgnomecanvaspixbuf -lunicode -lgconf-gtk-1 -lgconf-1 -loaf -lpopt
> > [...]
> > gconf_error_destroy                 main.o
> > dbopen                              /opt/gnome-1.4/lib/libgnome.so
> > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to balsa
> 
> This looks like a library mismatch and a problem in configure
> script/code to me. both libdb and libgnomeconf-1 are on the list of
> linked libraries so I find it difficult to understand why these
> libraries do not contain needed functions. In my case, dbopen function
> is in
> 
> /usr/lib/libdb.so.2 from package db1-1.85
> 
> gconf_error_destroy is something more serious. It seems that gconf
> interface has changed since we tested balsa against it and it does not
> export gconf_error_destroy function any more (at least as of
> GConf-1.0.0). Temporary solution is to disable GTKHTML but it would be
> better to find out what should replace following sequence from
> src/main.c
> 
>     if (!gconf_init(argc, argv, &gconf_error))
>         gconf_error_destroy(gconf_error);
>     gconf_error = NULL;
> 
> Having looked at examples in gconf tarball, I think one could try
>    if (!gconf_init(argc, argv, &gconf_error))
>         g_error_free(gconf_error);
>    gconf_error = NULL;
> 
> Can you verify it, please?
> 
> /Pawel
> 
> --
> Pawel Salek (pawsa@theochem.kth.se) http://www.theochem.kth.se/~pawsa/
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