Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Hard time compiling ekiga

[thomas schorpp <thomas schorpp googlemail com>]

Luis Menina wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm currently trying to compile SVN trunk version of Ekiga, in order to 
> submit patches for this bug:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361679

> Here are the problems I encountered:
> 1. ekiga directly segfaulted on startup, due to uninitialized types in 
> gm_conf_init (lib/gmconf/gmconf-gconf.c). I fixed that calling 
> g_type_init at the beginning of gm_conf_init, but I think it's a weird 
> comportement, and don't really know if it's related to my developing 
> environment.

GConf broken or someone has broken it in Ekiga.
do gconftool-2 --spawn

> 2. Once I had that fixed, ekiga complained about no audio device being 
> found. 

ptlib/opal have changed their install paths from <prefix>/lib/pwlib to ptlib. 
clean all old installed stuff up manually. makefile does not support automigration.

I just couldn't know what to do then. So I updated everything: my 
> SVN opal, ptlib and ekiga builds. Since then I can't build ekiga, as I 
> have linking errors with opal:
>
> <snip>

> /opt/gnome2/lib/libopal.so: undefined reference to 
> `PString::PString(PScalarArray<unsigned short> const&)'

read gcc/g++ docs and do make clean opal before make debug.
do clean later on any bigger SVN changes or You will run into 
broken vtables like runtime-hazards producing unconfirmable bugs.

y
tom