Re: vte won't compile

[Amarpreet Rattan <arattan math uwaterloo ca>]

On Sunday 25 July 2004 21:07, Paul Drain wrote:
> > the problem seems to be that the 'make paranoid-install' is looking for
> > libgtk-x11-2.0.la in /usr/lib.  why it is looking for it there i don't
> > know.  i looked in the /home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib and
> > libgtk-x11-2.0.la is there, so it was built by the 'make
> > paranoid-install'.  for some reason it doesn't want to use the one in
> > /home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib.
>
> *sigh*
>
> For some reason, this crops up a lot on earlier Red Hat boxes. .la files
> are just a shell script that sets some variables so that you can get at
> the actual .so or .a file.
>
> Your two options here, are:
>
> * upgrade libtool (recompiling the source RPM from Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 3 works) and do a 'make clean / make install' on 'platform/vte'
> and it's dependencies.

well, i updated my libtool to libtool-1.5.6 (not from redhat enterprise but 
from atrpms.  that didn't work, i got the same error (i restarted the compile 
from the beginning)

> or:
>
> * remove all the .la files from your $GARNOME/lib directory and do a
> 'make clean / make install' in platform/vte.

i gave this a try as well.  note, there is NO platform/vte directory (at least 
there is no platform vte on mine) so i assume you mean desktop/vte.  i did 
what you said and no dice, but i do get a different error.

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amic  -L/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib ./.libs/libvte.so 
-lXft /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lXrender -lgtk-x11-2.0 
-lgdk-x11-2.0 /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 
-lfontconfig /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so 
-ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lncurses -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lm -Wl,--rpath 
-Wl,/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_unsetenv'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`pango_find_base_dir'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_type_instance_get_private'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_completion_complete_utf8'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_param_spec_get_redirect_target'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_object_class_override_property'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_type_class_add_private'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_object_interface_install_property'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_markup_printf_escaped'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_value_take_string'
/home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_markup_vprintf_escaped'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [vte] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/garnomeuser/garnome-2.6.2/desktop/vte/work/main.d/vte-0.11.10/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/garnomeuser/garnome-2.6.2/desktop/vte/work/main.d/vte-0.11.10'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/garnomeuser/garnome-2.6.2/desktop/vte/work/main.d/vte-0.11.10'
make: *** [build-work/main.d/vte-0.11.10/Makefile] Error 2

> Regards,
>
> Paul

hmmph.

amps