Re: ORBit RPM troubles

[Ruben Safir <ruben mrbrklyn com>]

I got these errors.

root www2:/home/ruben/gtk/gnomedownload/ORBit/ORBit-0.5.12 > am_opt="-a  -c
--gnu" ./autogen.sh --help
processing .
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
`aclocal.m4'.
configure.in:242: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross
compiling
automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
    error while copying

automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
    error while copying

automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
    error while copying

configure.in: 60: required file `./ltconfig' not found
automake: Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
    error while coconfigure.in: 60: required file `./ltconfig' not found
automake: Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
    error while copying

automake: Makefile.am: installing `./COPYING'
    error while copying

configure.in:242: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross
compiling
configure.in:69: AC_PROG_CPP was called before AC_PROG_CC
configure.in:242: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross
compiling
processing libIDL
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
`aclocal.m4'.
configure.in: 78: required file `./ltconfig' not found
automake: Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
    error while copying

Makefile.am:38: installing `./texinfo.tex'
    error while copying

cpying


On 2001.11.23 14:01:26 -0500 Rémi Cohen-Scali wrote:
>>>
>>Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 20:01:26 +0100
>>Status: O
>>
>>Ruben Safir wrote:
>>
>>>It makes no sense.  Why would it work with make and make install, but
>>not
>>>with RPM.
>>>
>>Yes it doesn't. It seems you have a delta in libtool version. Please 
>>report what is it ?
>>You could also try to take ORBit directly from CVS and make a tarball 
>>from it. This tarball will replace the one you got with the rpm package
>> For that do:
>>
>>export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome"
>>cvs login
>>==> it will ask you a password. just hit <enter>
>>cvs export -r ORBIT_0_5_12 -d ORBit-0.5.12 ORBit
>>cd ORBIT_0_5_12
>>am_opt="-a  -c --gnu" ./autogen.sh --help
>>cd ..
>>tar cvzf <rpm_root_dir>/SOURCES/ORBit-0.5.12.tar.gz ORBit-0.5.12
>>
>>=> Then try to rebuild ...
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>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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