Re: gnome issues with Tru64

[Jacob Berkman <jacob helixcode com>]

Aron Griffis <agriffis@bigfoot.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 12:43:07PM -0800, George wrote:
> > Yes, send a mail again to gnome-devel with your report on the 1.1.2
> > when it comes out.  We're very interested in it working correctly on
> > other platforms, and hopefully by 1.2, you'll be able to
> > ./configure; make; make install :)
> 
> Here are the issues persistent with GNOME on Tru64 UNIX as of 1.1.2.
> 
> ### gnome-core-1.1.2 ###
> 
> (1) Please upgrade to libtool-1.3.4, which supports shared libraries
>     on Tru64 UNIX 5.x.
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.3.4.tar.gz
> 
>     The workaround is to install libtool-1.3.4 locally, and do
> 
> 	cp /usr/local/share/libtool/* .
> 
>     before running configure.

Ok, should be in 1.1.3.  Funky action!
 
> (2) configure doesn't detect nm correctly.  This is a problem in
>     autoconf.  The workaround is to configure with
> (3) It is still necessary to do the following prior to compilation:
> 
>     find . -name Makefile \
> 	| xargs perl -0777 -i -pe 's/^INTLLIBS =.*/INTLLIBS = -lintl/m'

Hmm, can you get a patch to something to fix these?

I *think* the rest of the issues will be resolved with 1.1.3...

Jacob
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