Re: [gtk-list] Re: compile problems on SunOS 5.7

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

Thanks - this got it to compile so until our sys admin installs a
newer version of Perl, this will work.  Is there any disadvantage to
this - i.e., does it cause any problems?

Dave


> From: Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
> 
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Dave Reed wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Correction - 1.2.4 won't compile using gcc 2.8.1 on any of the Suns,
> > but it does compile fine on my RH 5.2 Linux box at home.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> yes, for some reason your perl version isn't able to run the perl
> scripts we ship with gtk. possible solutions are to either upgrade perl
> (i got 5.004_04 here and it runs fine with the gtk scripts) or to fool
> the gtk configure script to not run the rebuild rules.
> to fool gtk's configure script you need to open it in an editor, search for
> REBULD until you get to these lines:
> 
> REBUILD=\#
> if test -n "$PERL" && perl -v | grep 'version 5.' > /dev/null ; then
>   if test -n "$AWK" ; then
>     REBUILD=
>   fi
> fi
> 
> then simply reset the REBUILD value:
> 
> REBUILD=\#
> if test -n "$PERL" && perl -v | grep 'version 5.' > /dev/null ; then
>   if test -n "$AWK" ; then
>     REBUILD=\#
>   fi
> fi
> 
> you should reextract the tarball before hand, because the last time you
> tried building gtk, your perl version possibly caused gtktypebuiltins_evals.c
> or other autogenerated files to be overwritten with grabage.
> 
> i'll add a --disable-rebuild option to the configure.in now ;)
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> 
> ---
> ciaoTJ
> 
> -- 
> 
>