Re: Compile error in gnome-utils

[Samuel Stringham <sams marketing-designs com>]

On 2002.10.29 00:49 Jason Trickett wrote:
> > > > > I've encountered a compile error with garnome 0.18.2
> pertaining to
> > > the
> > > > > gnome-utils package, mostly 'undefined reference' errors like:
> > > > >
> > > > > yesno.c:183: undefined reference to 'delwin'
> > > > >
> > > > > I have several screens worth of errors like this. Am I missing
> a
> > > > > particular package?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sounds like it didn't check for curses/ncurses in gdialog.
> Check to
> > > > see which library you have, and report the bug to
> bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > > --
> > >
> > > The version of ncurses I have is 5.2-16mdk (for Mandrake 8.1). If
> it's
> > > truly a bug in gdialog is it possible to continue with garnome
> 0.18.2
> > > by
> > > sidestepping this?
> > >
> > run: nm -B /usr/lib/libncurses.so | grep delwin
> >
> > and see if it comes up with something along the lines of:
> > 12345 T delwin
> > ^^^   ^ ^^^
> > 1     2  3
> > 1: doesn't matter, just the location in the file
> > 2: should be T meaning it is in the TEXT of the library file
> > 3: is just the name of the function that library contains.
> >
> > If it does, then just add -lncurses to the end of the line that
> fails
> > to compile, and it will probably do the trick.  if it doesn't, yeah
> > skip it, you can live without gdialog.
> > --

> I ran 'nm -B ...' and the result was 'nm: /usr/lib/libncurses.so: no
> symbols'. So now I can skip gdialog .... but how exactly? I'm still a
> novice. Sorry for the dumb(?) question.

damn, forgot they strip their libs in the distros.  try to edit the 
garnome-0.18.1/gnome/gnome-utils/work/gnome-utils-x.x.x/Makefile and 
search for SUBDIRS.  take gdialog out of that line and it should work 
again.  Also, before you do that try the line it complains about with 
the -lncurses at the end, and an "#include <ncurses.h>" in the yesno.c 
file.

Samuel Stringham

P.S. that was actually a rather good question.  The bad questions are 
the ones that state nothing about what they are trying to accomplish, 
or what the error message actually is.