Re: Problem with compiling GNOME 2.5



On 2004-02-13(Fri) 13:05:20 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> >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.
> >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.

Or simply avoid running libtoolize at all if possible. Yes, Mandrake 9.2
comes with libtool 1.4.3, which will fail miserably when trying to
overwrite the libtool 1.5 bundled with various gnome tarballs.

Abel



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