Re: [Evolution] evo svn build failing -- /usr/lib/evolution/2.10/libetable.so.0: undefined reference to `e_gettext'

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:32 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> OK -- rm'd  the entire evolution directory, checked out fresh from svn, then
>   ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-nntp=yes --enable-imap4=yes 
> --enable-cairo-calendar=yes --enable-mono=yes --enable-exchange=yes 
> --enable-plugins=all --with-openldap=yes && make
>
> build fails with same error
>   /usr/lib/evolution/2.10/libetable.so.0: undefined reference to `e_gettext'
>
> Shouldn't the build explicitly be linking to the libetable.so.0 in the 
> svn build tree, rather than the one in /usr/lib?????

Yes.  It looks like there's something screwy in your build environment.


> /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/evolution/2.10
> /usr/lib/evolution/2.10/libetable.so.0: undefined reference to `e_gettext'

Here's the cause of it.

GCC is passing "--rpath /usr/lib/evolution/2.10" to the linker.

http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/manual/ld-2.9.1/html_node/ld_3.html

I'm not sure how that's getting into your autoconf-generated Makefiles,
but that's why the build is failing.

Matthew Barnes