ORBit compile dies a horrible death

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

  Anyone have an idea what's wrong? (I have a lot more modules which are
crashing and burning in the compile if you want those logs too..)

processing .
You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
configure.in:224: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:291: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling

  [snip]

processing libIDL
You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
processing popt
Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/usr/local/gnome --with-gtk-prefix=/usr/local/gnome --with-glib-prefix=/usr/local/gnome
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes

  [snip]

creating config.h
config.h is unchanged
configuring in libIDL
running /bin/sh ./configure  --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/usr/local/gnome --with-gtk-prefix=/usr/local/gnome --with-glib-prefix=/usr/local/gnome --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
loading cache .././config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes

  [snip]

creating IDL.h.new
IDL.h is unchanged

libIDL configuration complete

  C Preprocessor: "gcc -E"
  Standard input supported.

configuring in popt
running /bin/sh ./configure  --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/usr/local/gnome --with-gtk-prefix=/usr/local/gnome --with-glib-prefix=/usr/local/gnome --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
loading cache .././config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes

  [snip]

creating config.h
config.h is unchanged

Now type 'make' to compile ORBit.
cd . && autoheader
configure.in:224: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling

  [snip]

configure.in:305: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/daniel/gnome/ORBit'
Making all in popt
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/daniel/gnome/ORBit/popt'
cd . && automake --foreign Makefile
cd . \
  && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status
creating Makefile
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/gnome/ORBit/popt'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/daniel/gnome/ORBit/popt'
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -o test1  test1.o libpopt.la 
gcc -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o test1 test1.o .libs/libpopt.al
.libs/libpopt.al: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
make[2]: *** [test1] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/gnome/ORBit/popt'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/gnome/ORBit'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
Compilation of ORBit failed at Thu Feb 25 18:58:17 EST 1999

  ????

  Daniel Burrows

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