Re: Problems compiling gnome-pilot-0.1.65 with pilot-link-0.11.1

["Mike Musson" <iwannabelikemike hotmail com>]

Thanks a lot Brett!  That seemed to fix the problem and it compiled nicely!

Cheers,

Mike



> From: "Brett A. Thomas" <quark baz com>
> Reply-To: gnome-pilot-list gnome org
>
>
> On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 21:26, Mike Musson wrote:
> > As I understand it, those symbols come from the libpisync.so which has 
> been
> > installed in my /usr/local/lib directory by pilot-link.  I made sure 
> that
> > path was in the ld.so.conf file and I ran ldconfig but still get the 
> same
> > problem.  I also made sure there was no pilot-link rpm packages 
> installed.
> >
> > I'm out of ideas.
> >
> > Any help is much appreciated!!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mike
>
> Mike,
>
> The problem is that configure is a generated file, and the supplied
> patch only patched its source.  The latest pilot-link split into two
> libraries, and configure is not generating makefiles that know about the
> new library.
>
> You have two choices:  You can either rebuild configure - check the
> README and perhaps here:
>
>   http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-pilot/documents/FAQ.html
>
> I discovered that to be annoying, so, you do what I did and edit
> configure and change it so that every place it says "-lpisync" it says
> "-lpisync -lpisock".  Note you'll have to add quotes at least one place
> were there is an assignment like:
>
>   FOO = -lpisync
>
> That will now need to be:
>
>   FOO = "-lpisync -lpisock"
>
> You can tell if this worked or not by whether configure properly finds
> your pilot-link.  Oh, and, also, I don't know how your system is
> configured, but I didn't have a lot of luck with having pilot-link live
> somewhere other than the gnome system stuff (i.e., gnome in /usr and
> pilot-link in /usr/local).  But that might just be because I'm
> thick-headed and was rushing through, simply trying to get it to work
> instead of understanding _how_ it works.  That's probably why I couldn't
> figure out how to rebuild configure, either, although in my defense I
> found that FAQ after I'd already edited configure by hand.
>
> Also, should the gnome-pilot Gods be listening, I'm still having my
> problem where it won't work with a Treo - gnome-pilot basically does
> nothing.  This is after a format-reinstall from a hardware problem.
> Pilot-link works fine on its own.  I haven't had time to debug it.
>
> Brett




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