Re: Trying to configure/compile glib-2.0.6

[Paul Thomas <paul cuenet com>]

I'm just able to get back to this.

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:

> 
> Paul Thomas <paul cuenet com> writes:
> 
> > I got through my other hoops but while tyring to ./configure
> > on my Linux box (older install), the configure script gets
> > to this point then quits:
> > 
> > checking for working alloca.h... (cached) yes
> > checking for alloca... (cached) yes
> > checking for atexit... yes
> > checking for on_exit... yes
> > checking for char... yes
> > checking size of char... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (char), 77
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone know what I might need to address to 'compute sizeof (char)'?
> 
> Look at config.log - you'll have some sort of compiler error
> in there related to this.
> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen

Yes, well there is in config.log:

configure:12222: checking size of char
configure:12527: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall   conftest.c  -liconv
-lintl -lico
nv >&5
configure:12527: $? = 0
configure:12527: ./conftest
./conftest: can't load library 'libiconv.so.2'
configure:12527: $? = 16
configure: program exited with status 16
configure: failed program was:

skip commented includes

long longval () { return (long) (sizeof (char)); }
unsigned long ulongval () { return (long) (sizeof (char)); }

skip commented includes

     extern "C"

skip comment

   int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; }

skip comment

int
main ()
{

  FILE *f = fopen ("conftest.val", "w");
  if (! f)
    exit (1);
  if (((long) (sizeof (char))) < 0)
    {
      long i = longval ();
      if (i != ((long) (sizeof (char))))
        exit (1);
      fprintf (f, "%ld\n", i);
    }
  else
    {
      unsigned long i = ulongval ();
      if (i != ((long) (sizeof (char))))
        exit (1);
      fprintf (f, "%ld\n", i);
    }
  else
    {
      unsigned long i = ulongval ();
      if (i != ((long) (sizeof (char))))
        exit (1);
      fprintf (f, "%lu\n", i);
    }
  exit (ferror (f) || fclose (f) != 0);
      
  ;  
  return 0;
}
configure:12527: error: cannot compute sizeof (char), 77

I don't know why:

configure:12527: ./conftest
./conftest: can't load library 'libiconv.so.2'

is happening as 'libiconv.so.2' is right here:

/usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2

freshly installed from:

/var/local/src/libiconv-1.8/

Any comments appreciated.

Thanks,

--Paul


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