Re: ORBit 4.90 Compile problems

["Richard" <richard_vaughan timewarp co uk>]

I think *bugger* is all I can say to that! :)

Can you let me know if you find a solution? Please?


Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: <psalzman@landau.ucdavis.edu>
To: Richard <richard_vaughan@timewarp.co.uk>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: ORBit 4.90 Compile problems


> 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
>
>
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