Re: Error compiling GNOME

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn comm uni-bremen de>]

Paul, thanks for your help.

INTLLIBS=-lintl ./configure && gmake && gmake install

did the trick!

Heinrich

Paul Doom wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:04:38PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> > has anyone succeeded in compiling GNOME stable under 2.8?
> 
> Yup.  I just did it last week.  I haven't actually used it
> yet, but the remote runs of various GNOME progs have all
> been fine.
> 
> > After repairing the Makefile manually,
> 
> You should use GNU Make (gmake) to build GNOME.
> 
> >After repairing the Makefile manually, the next error shows up:
> >
> > gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -o .libs/gnome-name-service
> >  gnome-name-server.o -L.libs -lgnorbagtk -lz -lm -lname-server
> >  -L/usr/local/lib -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lwrap -lORBitutil
> >  -lglib -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lz -lm -R/usr/local/lib
> > gnome-name-server.c:229: Undefined symbol `_gettext' referenced from
> >  text segment
> > gnome-name-server.c:246: Undefined symbol `_gettext' referenced from
> >  text segment
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> That was the one I was expecting :)  I ran configure on all the GNOME.
> builds with the --disable-nls switch, which fixes the build problem
> but doesn't help much if you actually need NLS support. (Hmmm.... a
> .de root domain.  I wonder if you speak a language besides English ;)
> 
> Not wanting to appear more idiotic than usual, I went back and
> tracked down the problem. Seems that in most cases, -lintl (which
> is where the _gettext stuff commeth from), is included.  But, it
> is only included with UI libs. In cases where UI libs are not needed,
> there are no flags set to include libintl.  A bit of digging turned
> up a Makefile variable called "INTLLIBS".  If you set INTLLIBS to
> "-lintl", presto! It links!  So, when you configure try:
> 
> INTLLIBS="-lintl" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-blah --without-pickles etc..
> 
> You will need to have the gettext-0.10.35 package installed.
> I don't have the time to try a full build with it right now, but
> INTLLIBS seems to be in all the GNOME base packages, so it should
> work. gnome-libs just built with NLS support fine.
> 
> One final note, don't run GNOME without a firewall between it
> and the internet, or at least without some local IPF filtering
> on the ports GNOME components listen on. (TCP:8248 and
> TCP:21325 are what I see up now.)  Outsiders don't need to
> know, or be able to attempt access to, what you run on
> your desktop.
> 
> -Paul
> 
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