Re: ORBit RPM troubles

[Ruben Safir <ruben mrbrklyn com>]

It makes no sense.  Why would it work with make and make install, but not
with RPM.

Ruben

On 2001.11.23 12:12:22 -0500 Rémi Cohen-Scali wrote:
>>Try these ones:
>>http://www.rcsnet.net/pub/Gnome/gnome-1.4.1+/SRPMS/ORBit-0.5.12-gnome141.src.rpm
>>http://www.rcsnet.net/pub/Gnome/gnome-1.4.1+/RPMS/i686/ORBit-0.5.12-gnome141.i686.rpm
>>http://www.rcsnet.net/pub/Gnome/gnome-1.4.1+/RPMS/i686/ORBit-devel-0.5.12-gnome141.i686.rpm
>>
>>perhaps they will fix your problems ...
>>good luck
>>
>>Ruben Safir wrote:
>>
>>>Hello:
>>>
>>>I have a SuSe base linux box which I've upgraded over time and it no
>>longer
>>>installs Xiamen from the go scripts.  So I relutently have decided to
>>>install gnome by hand using RPM's on the tar.gz tar balls.  It's been a
>>>problem. Right now ORBit will compile with make install, but not with
>>RPM
>>>-ta .  It complains about a popt.tar.gz file being missing.  I searched
>>the
>>>mail list, and found I could get rid of the popt.spec file (and so I
>>did). 
>>>But then RPM -ta complained about a missing libIDL.tar.gz file.  So I
>>>removed THAT spec file and retared the source code.  Now it fails to
>>>compile because of this message:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce 
>>-o
>>>orbit-idl  orbit-idl-main.o orbit-idl-driver.o orbit-idl-backends.o
>>>orbit-idl-passes.o orbit-idl-genmarshal.o orbit-idl-utils.o
>>>backends/c/liborbit-c-backend.a       ../../libIDL/libIDL.la 
>>>../../popt/libpopt.la  -L/usr/lib -lglib -L/usr/lib -rdynamic -lgmodule
>>>-lglib -ldl     -lm 
>>>libtool: ltconfig version `' does not match ltmain.sh version `1.3.4'
>>>Fatal configuration error.  See the libtool docs for more information.
>>>make[4]: *** [orbit-idl] Error 1
>>>make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/ORBit-0.5.12/src/orbit-idl-compiler'
>>>make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/ORBit-0.5.12/src/orbit-idl-compiler'
>>>make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/ORBit-0.5.12/src'
>>>make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/ORBit-0.5.12'
>>>make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>>>Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86200 (%build)
>>>
>>>
>>>Does anyone have a working ORBit tarball?
>>>
>>>It just shouldn't be this hard to install gnome.  It's very fustrating
>>and
>>>I really don't know who to talk about this with on the gnome-development
>>>side.  This is getting harder and harder to do with every passing year. 
>>I
>>>went from SuSe 6.4, up to now 7.2 through upgrades, and have troubles
>>with
>>>gnome on SuSe, and Slackware.  The Helix stuff completely fails on all
>>SUSe
>>>7.0 series I've seen (which is many).  On the ftp site, many of the
>>LATEST
>>>packages are miss labled.  It never compiles by hand any longer.
>>>
>>>Thanks for your time. 
>>>
>>>
>>>Ruben
>>>
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