Re: [gnome-love] Build failure: libtool not finding /usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.la

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 1/8/06, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne gmail com> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I'm building evolution-exchange from CVS with jhbuild. I get the
> following build error:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/bjourne/cvsgnome/sources/evolution-exchange/storage'
> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith
> -Wno-sign-compare  -Wno-sign-compare   -o evolution-exchange-storage
> exchange-autoconfig-wizard.o exchange-component.o
> exchange-config-listener.o exchange-change-password.o
> exchange-migrate.o exchange-storage.o main.o
> ../mail/libexchangemail.la ../addressbook/libexchangeaddressbook.la
> ../calendar/libexchangecalendar.la ../camel/camel-stub-marshal.lo
> -pthread -L/home/bjourne/cvsgnome/install/lib/evolution/2.6
> -L/home/bjourne/cvsgnome/install/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -leshell
> -ledataserverui-1.2 -ledata-book-1.2 -lebook-1.2 -ledata-cal-1.2
> -lecal-1.2 -lsoup-2.2 -lgnutls -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error
> -lglade-2.0 -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2 -lgnome-keyring
> -lgnomecanvas-2 -lgnome-2 -lpopt -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0
> -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo
> -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2
> -lgthread-2.0 -lgnomeprint-2-2 -lart_lgpl_2 -lxml2 -lz -lm -lpango-1.0
> -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lcamel-1.2
> -lcamel-provider-1.2 -ledataserver-1.2   -pthread
> -L/home/bjourne/cvsgnome/install/lib
> -L/home/bjourne/cvsgnome/install/lib/evolution/2.6 -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> -leshell -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2 -lgnome-keyring
> -lgnomecanvas-2 -lart_lgpl_2 -lpangoft2-1.0 -ledataserverui-1.2
> -lglade-2.0 -lebook-1.2 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0
> -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgnome-2 -lpopt
> -ledataserver-1.2 -lgnomevfs-2 -lgobject-2.0 -lexchange-storage-1.2
> -lsoup-2.2 -lgnutls -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error -lbonobo-2
> -lbonobo-activation -lxml2 -lz -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 -lm -lgmodule-2.0
> -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0
> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.la'
>
> libtool is correct that there is no libsoup-2.2.la file in /usr/lib.
> However ~/cvsgnome/install/lib/libsoup-2.2.la exists (because jhbuild
> installs libsoup-2.2). evolution-exchange was configured with
> --prefix=~/cvsgnome/install so I think libtool should be able to find
> that .la-file that it wants. I "solved" this problem by installing the
> package libsoup2.2-dev which puts a libsoup-2.2.la file in /usr/lib.
> But since jhbuild fetches a libsoup-2.2 from cvs I naturally want to
> link evolution-exchange with that libsoup instead. So I'm thinking
> that this is either a problem with libtool (maybe it has /usr/lib
> hardcoded?) or with jhbuild or maybe with evolution-exchange.

I remember reading about something like this, though I don't remember
where.  IIRC and if this happens to be the same situation, the problem
is not that evolution-exchange is attempting to get libsoup from
/usr/lib, but rather that one of the libs it depends on has somehow
been compiled/linked/whatever so that it depends upon
/usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.la and thus that lib is the one trying to pull it
in.  I believe that running ldd on a bunch of the libs in $prefix/lib/
that are being linked in that line might help you find the culprit.

Hope that helps,
Elijah