GNOME on commerical UNIX (Re: Gnome installation on an HP station)

[Brian Seklecki <lavalamp burghcom com>]

Jürgen Salk wrote:

> Laurent Decreusefond <decreuse enst fr> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install gnome on a H box
> >
> > HP-UX wiener B.10.20 A 9000/778 2014384982 two-user license
> >
> >
> > I am facing several problems, I already browsed the archives of the
> > mailing lists but I found nothing appropriate. In brief, I need some
> > help :
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > but I am having some problems with ORBit-0.5.4
> > Making all in libIDL
> >         /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -o libIDL.la -rpath
> > /usr/local/lib -version-info 4:4:4              -release 0.6 parser.lo
> > lexer.lo ns.lo util.lo  -L/usr/local/lib -lglib
> > rm -fr .libs/libIDL.la .libs/libIDL.* .libs/libIDL-0.6.*
> >
> > *** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by
> > -L/usr/local/lib.
> > *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in
> > when
> > *** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a
> > *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have.
> > *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be
> > *** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library
> > *** or is declared to -dlopen it.
>

This error message is a reoccurring theme on my Solaris/Sun box.  Libraries
that build static by default, which breaks some GNOME package dependency
that want's them to be compiled shared, or random symbols missing from GCC,
etc.  Of course, the error messages don't provide any useful debugging info
and you spend (waste) hours of time searching newsgroup, mailing list, and
message board archives on the web.

And then of course there's the fact that core system binaries for Solaris
are scattered all across a file-system heiarchy cluster fu*k.

/usr/ucb
/usr/ccs/bin
/usrxp4g/bin
/bin is a sym-link to /usr/bin?!

If my problems compiling GNOME software don't clear up soon, I'm going to
start taking drastic measures to end the madness, diffing up LS output,
looking for symlinks and duplicates, and moving all these binaries to where
they should be, /usr/bin.

On a side note, the NetBSD/Sparc64 team estimates having  X support by
Jan/Feb 2001, which will give sun4u users an alternative to this sickness.

-lava

> > /usr/ccs/bin/ld -b +h libIDL-0.6.sl.4 +b /usr/local/lib -o
> > .libs/libIDL-0.6.sl.4.4  parser.lo lexer.lo ns.lo util.lo  -lglib -lc
> > /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Can't find library for -lglib
> > *** Error exit code 1
> >
> > That's strange because glib-1.2.8 compiled like a charm but no glib
> > library exists.
>
> I am not at all perfectly sure, but your problem may be related
> to a flaw in gcc for HP-UX.
>
> >From the gcc-2.952 man-page:
>
> | -mshared-libs
> |   Generate code that can be linked against HP-UX shared  libraries.
> |   This option  is not fully function yet, and is not on by default
> |   for any PA target. Using this option can cause incorrect code to
> |   be generated by the compiler.
>
> Although it may be not a challenge for you: There are prebuild
> dynamically linked binaries of most Gnome packages (including
> ORBit-0.5.4) available at the HP-UX Software Porting Centre at
>
> http://hpux.cict.fr/hppd/hpux/Gnome/
>
> I am not yet running Gnome on HP-UX, but I would be interested
> in your experiences in setting up Gnome for HP-UX. Would you
> mind posting a brief summary or CDE-to-Gnome-HowTo or something
> like that?
>
> Best regards - Juergen.
>
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