Re: Problem compiling Gtk-Perl-0.7008

[Marcus Claesson <m claesson student ucc ie>]

Thanks everyone for your answers!
Since I'm a lazy one I went for the RPM 
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/Gtk-Perl-0.7008-31.i386.rpm
which successfully installed Gtk-Perl within seconds!

Marcus

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:08, muppet wrote:
> Marcus Claesson said:
> > I have a problem compiling Gtk-Perl-0.7008 on RedHat 8.0.
>
> gtk-perl is included in the RH8 distro but for some reason is not installed by
> default.  you can install it rather easily from the cds or by looking on
> rpmfind.net for Gtk-Perl; e.g.:
> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/Gtk-Perl-0.7008-31.i386.rpm
>
>
> > gcc: build/PerlGtkExt.o: No such file or directory
> > gcc: build/GtkDefs.o: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [../blib/arch/auto/Gtk/Gtk.so] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/Gtk-Perl-0.7008/Gtk'
> > make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
>
> from what i can tell, there seems to be some difference in MakeMaker between
> 5.6.x and 5.8.0 that makes it not build *.o in the same subdir as the source
> *.xs ... the Makefile.PL for GtkPerl expects to find the *.o in various
> subdirectories, but they all get created in the directory in which you invoked
> make.  ugly.
>
>
> i found that you can fix that by adding this code to the Makefile.PL:
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-
>
> # --- MakeMaker const_cccmd section:
> package MY; # so that SUPER works right
> sub const_cccmd {
>         my $inherited = shift->SUPER::const_cccmd (@_);
>         $inherited .= " -o \$@";
>         $inherited;
> }
> package MAIN;
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-
>
>
> you'll have to add that to the Makefile.PL in each of the various module
> subdirs (Gtk, GtkHTML, Gnome, etc).  wouldn't you rather install a binary rpm?
>   :-)
>
> is there anybody still reading the list who has commit access to the old
> gtk-perl tree who can commit this patch?
>
>
> -- 
> muppet <scott asofyet org>
>
>
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