[Ekiga-list] Installation problem with pwlib

[Ludovic Gris]

Derek Smithies wrote:
> Hi,
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Damien Sandras wrote:
>
>   
>> I do not understand how you can compile OPAL without PWLIB. It is
>> impossible. You have to first compile pwlib, then opal, then ekiga. If
>> you are not doing so, and that it works, you will get a crashy binary
>> because of libraries conflicts.
>>     
>
> Technically, Damien, I agree with you. However, I suspect that Ludovic has
> *the pwlib and pwlib-dev packages on this box, 
> *possibly has the opal and opal-dev packages on his box.
>
> and is then compiling the source extracted from an opal tarball.
>
> the source he is compiling is including headers from pwlib-dev.
> the source he is compiling may be including headers from opal-dev
> the source he is compiling may be including headers from the tarball.
>
> This is not guaranted to work. In fact, it is a sure and accurate path to 
> madness.
>  My suggestion:: When compiling pwlib/opal etc, remove all packages 
> pertaining to pwlib/opal-dev.
>
> Derek.
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le vendredi 04 août 2006 à 20:47 +0200, Ludovic Gris a écrit :
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>> I have problem to install ekiga from source on my slackware 10.2.
>>> I installed packages from linuxpackages.com and I have problem with 
>>> gconf. Someone on the mailing list from linuxpackages has the same 
>>> problem and indicate that it works when installing from sources.
>>> So I try...
>>> Opal is now installed from source but I have problem with pwlib-1.10.1. 
>>>       
>> I do not understand how you can compile OPAL without PWLIB. It is
>> impossible. You have to first compile pwlib, then opal, then ekiga. If
>> you are not doing so, and that it works, you will get a crashy binary
>> because of libraries conflicts.
>>
>>
>>     
>>> I don't know why and don't find information about such a problem on the net.
>>> I make:
>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-plugins --disable-oss --enable-v4l2
>>> and
>>> make >> make.log 2>&1
>>> Here is a few line of "make.log" :
>>>
>>>       
>> I think it is a problem with the headers of the kernel. There was some
>> post about that on the mailing list a while ago :
>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomemeeting-list/2006-May/msg00055.html
>> with the solution :
>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomemeeting-list/2006-May/msg00106.html
>>
>>
>>     
>
>   
OK, I remove old packages called opal and pwlib, add a link to my real 
kernel headers in place of the original kernel headers from slack (2.4.31).
PWLIB and OPAL are correctly installed now.
Thanks to the list! Sorry to ask help for an already solved problem...
Ludovic