Re: Problem with compiling GNOME 2.5

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 13/02/2004 12:47 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:

> Hello,
> Sorry if this is not the right list for this question - apologies in
> advance :-)
> I have been using jhbuild to compile GNOME HEAD from cvs.
> Recently, metacity and nautilus were acting very sluggishly, and after
> some poking around, I found out that the files that were being installed
> in $prefix/lib were missing the *.so extension.
> Example
>
> [testgnome starship-enterprise lib]$ ls -lh *glade*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 testgnome testgnome       18 Feb  9 21:22 libglade-2.0 -
>  
>
> > libglade-2.0.0.0.2*
> >    
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 testgnome testgnome       18 Feb  9 21:22 libglade-2.0.0
> -> libglade-2.0.0.0.2*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 testgnome testgnome      91K Feb  9 21:22 libglade-
> 2.0.0.0.2*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 testgnome testgnome     1.4K Feb  9 21:22 libglade-2.0.
> la*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 testgnome 505            21 Jan 18 14:04 libglade-2.0.so
> -> libglade-2.0.so.0.0.2*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 testgnome 505            21 Jan 18 14:04 libglade-2.0.
> so.0 -> libglade-2.0.so.0.0.2*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 testgnome 505           91K Jan 18 14:04 libglade-2.0.
> so.0.0.2*
>
> This is not an isolated issue - I noted the same problem with a number
> of other files.
> I am not really  familiar with the inticracies of the auto* tools and
> libtool, and so I am totally confused here.
> Any pointers towards what is going wrong would be much appreciated.
>
> I am running Mandrake 9.2.
>  
This problem occurs when aclocal finds the libtool.m4 from one version 
of libtool, and the libtoolize script installs an ltmain.sh from another 
version (the two versions are probably 1.4.x and 1.5.x).  These combine 
to create a non-working libtool script that installs shared libraries 
without extensions.

I'd suggest modifying ACLOCAL_FLAGS and/or PATH so that the right files 
get chosen.

James.

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