Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] gconf (the caveat of bleeding edge)

[Guilhem Tardy <guilhem_tardy yahoo com>]

You are right, gconf-config wasn't found (although it was in the $PATH, as confirmed also by
"which gconf-config").

Now it compiles. Installation is another thing (see next email)...

Guilhem.

--- Stefan Bruens <lurch gmx li> wrote:
> Am Wednesday 27 March 2002 18:04 schrieb Guilhem Tardy:
> > [root farquaad]# gconf-config --libs
> > -L/opt/gnome/lib -L/usr/lib -lgconf-1 -loaf -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP
> > -lORBitutil -lglib -lm
> >
> > All this is at the right place.
> 
> This seems correct, so let's continue the quest for errors ...
> 
> > I also updated gconf with the RPM you pointed me to (1.0.7), although I
> > didn't find any gconf-devel there.
> gconf has no seperate devel package, everything is included in the main 
> package (Try 'rpm -ql gconf | less' and you will see).
> 
> > The error message remains the same, and I checked that the corresponding
> > library (/opt/gnome/lib/libgconf-gtk-1.so) is there as it should. At this
> > point, I have no other idea.
> >
> > Guilhem.
> >
> >
> > gnomemeeting.o: In function `main':
> > /home/pci2103/gmeeting/src/gnomemeeting.cpp:353: undefined reference to
> > `gconf_init'
> > /opt/gnome/lib/libgconf-gtk-1.so: undefined reference to `gconf_valid_key'
> > /opt/gnome/lib/libgconf-gtk-1.so: undefined reference to
> > `gconf_engine_dir_exists'
> > /opt/gnome/lib/libgconf-gtk-1.so: undefined reference to
> > `gconf_key_is_below'
> You are misinterpreting this error message - the linker tries to find a symbol 
> named gconf_valid_key, which is _referenced_ by libgconf-gtk-1.so and IIRC 
> this can be found in libgconf-1 (not -gtk-). The problem is, that libgconf is 
> not in the list of the libraries to link to. Look into the command which is 
> executed (You posted it tuesday evening), there is no '-lgconf-1'. As it is 
> in the output of 'gconf-config --libs', it seems to be lost between configure 
> and make. Are you sure that gconf-config is found by configure - look at the 
> output of ./configure! Also the point you had to copy the gconf-includes 
> points in the direction that something is wrong with gconf-config, as the 
> path to this includes is also added to the compiler options with 
> 'gconf-config --cflags' (by the means of ./configure).
> 
> You can also look into the Makefile in the main directory, search for 'GCONF', 
> there you be four rather long lines starting with GCONF ...
> 
> Be sure you have checked everything I mentioned above, and also in my first 
> mail, I think this should give you some very good hints what goes wrong.
> 
> After thursday afternoon I will be out for holydays, maybe you will get your 
> next answers only past next tuesday.
> 
> Good luck,
> Stefan
> 
> >
> > --- Stefan Bruens <lurch gmx li> wrote:
> > > Am Tuesday 26 March 2002 22:39 schrieb Guilhem Tardy:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am pretty disappointed by the GConf support in the latest version of
> > > > GM, because to this date I couldn't run GM on RedHat (hangs at
> > > > startup), nor compile it on Suse.
> > > >
> > > > For the latter, I tried to compile GM 0.85.1 on Suse7.3, which has
> > > > gconf 1.04. I had to copy all .h files from /opt/gnome/include/gconf/1
> > > > to /opt/gnome/include/gconf/ , though. Now, I come across the following
> > > > error at the linking stage:
> > >
> > > The list of the libraries is missing some, which results in unresolved
> > > symbols. I think your gconf-config is not working correctly. Look into
> > > config.log, there should be some lines like
> > > configure:4128: checking for gconf-config
> > > configure:4145: found /opt/gnome/bin/gconf-config
> > > configure:4157: result: /opt/gnome/bin/gconf-config
> > > configure:4165: checking for GCONF - version >= 1.0
> > > configure:4181: result: yes
> > >
> > > If you don't have this, be sure you gave sufficient options to configure,
> > > for
> > >
> > > reference this are my options:
> > >  ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-compile-warnings
> > > --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-compile-warnings
> > > --sysconfdir=/etc/opt/gnome --prefix=/opt/gnome
> > > --datadir=/opt/gnome/share --mandir=/usr/share/man
> > > --with-gnome=/opt/gnome
> > > --with-gnome-includes=/opt/gnome/include --with-gnome-libs=/opt/gnome/lib
> > > --with-ptlib-includes=/usr/lib/pwlib/include/ptlib
> > > --with-ptlib-libs=/usr/lib/pwlib/lib
> > > --with-openh323-includes=/usr/lib/openh323/include
> > >
> > > also check the output from
> > > gconf-config --libs
> > >
> > > Maybe there is also something wrong with gconf 1.04 itself, I'm using
> > > 1.07. You can find a package for it on SuSEs ftp server or its mirrors,
> > > it located under supplementary/gnome/
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Stefan
> > >
> > > --
> > > Stefan Brüns  /  Kastanienweg 6 - Zimmer 1206  /  52074 Aachen
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