Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] issue with opal 3.5.2 finding ptlib 2.5.2

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I think I'm going mad. I'm trying to build the ekiga 3.1.0 build to
> > > > push to rawhide but I'm running into another build issue. Nothing else
> > > > has changed in the build env except the versions and ptlib with devel
> > > > libraries are installed. Ideas anyone?
> > ..deleted
> >
> > If you build ptlib with debugging (i.e. ./configure --enable-debug), then
> > you must also compile opal with debugging (i.e. ,.configure --enable-debug)
> >
> > Also, if you do not have PTLIBDR set when compiling PTLIB and Opal, then you
> > must install PTLib else Opal will not be able to find it.
>
> Recompiling opal and ptlib dozens of times too many with different
> configure options to see if there's one option that makes it shit
> itself it turns out that the option that kills opal from actually
> detecting the correct ptlib is ironically --enable-opal. Without that
> opal will detect the installed ptlib and compile correctly. Is this
> option now dead but hasn't been documented as such or is there some
> other issue?

I do not use --enable-opal for building.

If I understand correctly, opal cannot find ptlib.pc, is that right?  In 
that case, this should not be complicated to fix (why a file is not 
found)...

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Eugen