Re: Strange compiling problems

[Reklaw <nawalker earthlink net>]

Michael, I dug up your old message. I really have no idea what 
the problem could be. Could you send more info on your system to 
the list?  Versions of libtool, autoconf, automake, etc, etc.


On  2 Oct, Michael Bruce wrote:
> 
> I haven't been able to compile GNOME for a while, due to weird libtool
> problems.  I fixed them recently (by forcing the use of my local
> libtool rather than the included one), and I've been eager to get the
> latest release running.
> 
> I've had problems.
> 
> The show-stopper at the moment is related to gdk_imlib.  Gnome-libs
> needs this (or so it says when I try to compile it), so I've tried to
> get it compiled.  while doing so, I get:
> 
> <ERROR>
> 
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DDJPEG_PROG=\"/usr/bin/djpeg\"  -DCJPEG_PROG=\"/usr/bin/cjpeg\" -DCONVERT_PATH=\"/usr/bin\" -DNETPBM_PATH=\"/usr/bin\" -DSYSTEM_IMRC=\"/opt/gnome/etc/imrc\" -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I/opt/gnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/inclu
> de -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -c cache.c
> gcc -DDJPEG_PROG=\"/usr/bin/djpeg\" -DCJPEG_PROG=\"/usr/bin/cjpeg\" -DCONVERT_PATH=\"/usr/bin\" -DNETPBM_PATH=\"/usr/bin\" -DSYSTEM_IMRC=\"/opt/gnome/etc/imrc\"
>  -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I/opt/gnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -c -fPIC -DPIC cache.c
> In file included from /opt/gnome/include/gdk/gdktypes.h:25,
>                  from /opt/gnome/include/gdk/gdk.h:23,
>                  from gdk_imlib_types.h:1,
>                  from gdk_imlib.h:5,
>                  from cache.c:3:
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:536: parse error before `gssize'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:536: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:537: parse error before `gsize'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:537: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:538: parse error before `GQuark'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:538: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:539: parse error before `GTime'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:539: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:629: parse error before `key_id'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:687: parse error before `guint8'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:687: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:689: parse error before `}'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1247: parse error before `mask'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1265: parse error before `mask'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1396: parse error before `*'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1399: parse error before `*'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1426: parse error before `g_quark_try_string'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1426: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1427: parse error before `g_quark_from_static_string'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1427: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1428: parse error before `g_quark_from_string'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1428: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1429: parse error before `quark'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1437: parse error before `GQuark'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1439: parse error before `GQuark'
> /opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1443: parse error before `GQuark'
> 
> . . .
> 
> </ERROR>
> 
> And that sort of thing, that goes on for a very long time.  I
> assume that I'm the only one having this problem, since many others
> seem able to compile just fine.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 

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