Re: Compiling gnome on Solaris 2.7

[Rob Turknett <robert turknett sun com>]

I wish I could tell you. I used a Berkeley DB package that was pre-compiled for
Solaris 8, so I did not
experience this problem. Perhaps someone else on gnome-list will know. Anybody?

Rob Turknett
Sun Microsytems

Aaron Ginn wrote:

> Rob Turknett wrote:
> >
> > I just ran into this problem myself. You need to recompile Berkeley DB with
> > 1.85 compatibility turned on. Instructions on how to do this are at
> > http://www.clanger9.demon.co.uk/computer/gnome/
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob Turknett
> > Sun Microsystems
> >
>
> Rob,
>
> Thanks for the link.  I've successfully recompiled the Berkeley db and I
> was able to get through configure.  Now I'm having a problem during the
> actual compilation process.  Here's the error:
>
> ======================================================
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/ginn/gnu-tools/download/gnome/gnome-libs-1.2.3/libgnome'
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused   -o
> gnome-dump-metadata -L/home/ginn/gnu-tools/lib -lglib gnome-dump.o
> libgnome.la ../support/libgnomesupport.la
> -L/home/ginn/gnu-tools/lib -lesd -laudiofile -lm -lresolv -lrt -lnsl
> -lsocket -L/home/ginn/gnu-tools/lib -laudiofile -lm -ldb
> -L/home/ginn/gnu-tools/lib -lglib -ldl  -lz -lresolv -lm
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -o .libs/gnome-dump-metadata
> -L/home/ginn/gnu-tools/lib -lglib gnome-dump.o .libs/libgnome.so -lglib
> -lm -ldl -lz -lresolv -lm ../support/.libs/libgnomesupport.so -lz
> -lresolv -lm -L/home/ginn/gnu-tools/lib -lesd -laudiofile -lm -lresolv
> -lrt -lnsl -lsocket -L/home/ginn/gnu-tools/lib -laudiofile -lm -ldb
> -L/home/ginn/gnu-tools/lib -lglib -ldl -lz -lresolv -lm
> -R/home/ginn/gnu-tools/lib
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> __db185_open                        gnome-dump.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
> .libs/gnome-dump-metadata
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [gnome-dump-metadata] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/ginn/gnu-tools/download/gnome/gnome-libs-1.2.3/libgnome'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/ginn/gnu-tools/download/gnome/gnome-libs-1.2.3'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> ======================================================
>
> This appears to be related to the db 1.85 package.  Is this telling me
> that it can't find the db_185.h header file where __db185_open is
> defined, or is there a problem with the library that I built?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron Ginn
>
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