Re: ORBit 4.90 Compile problems

[psalzman landau ucdavis edu]

welcome to the club.

the configure script for orbit is broken, as far as i can tell.

i've contacted the cobra developers (who told me to contact redhat(?!?) for
some reason.  i contacted redhat for shits and giggles even though i'm almost
positive they're not the right people.  (i asked the cobra developers "i'm
not installing with rpms.  i'm compiling from source.  are you SURE i
should contact redhat?" and they replied "yes".

i also contacted the gnome people and got a nice automated reply thanking me
for the bug report, but it's been a couple of weeks now with no other word
from them.

i've seen at least 5 people with the same problem -- 3 from dejanews, one
person just recently and now you.  ummm... 6 including me.

maybe someday they'll fix it.

pete

> I've just downloaded ORBit 4.90, and I'm having trouble compiling it.
> 
> The configure stage looks ok, except for the fact that I get this message
> during the process:
> 
>     sed: can't read ./src/idl-compiler/Makefile.in: No such file or
> directory
> 
> Then when I do a make I get:
> 
> In file included from ../../../../src/orbit-idl-compiler/orbit-idl2.h:7,
>                  from orbit-idl-c-backend.h:4,
>                  from orbit-idl-c-backend.c:3:
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:163: parse error before `wchar_t'
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:163: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
> union
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:166: parse error before `*'
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:175: parse error before `wchar_t'
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:175: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
> union
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:178: parse error before `*'
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:544: field `idl_wide_string' has incomplete type
> ../../../../libIDL/IDL.h:546: field `idl_wide_char' has incomplete type
> make[5]: *** [orbit-idl-c-backend.o] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2