Re: Problems with installation of Gtk2 on SUSE 9.1

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sep 27, 2005, at 6:21 PM, Pih Lung Pang wrote:

> I am trying first to install Gtk+-2.8.3, because that is
> Gtk2(correct?) and then Gtk2-Perl.
> But I ran into problems, when trying to install the dependencies for
> Gtk+-2.8.3: Glib-2.8.2, ATK-1.10.1, Pango-1.10.0, Cairo-1.0.0,
> fontconfig-2.3.2 and freetype-2.1.10.

Save yourself a lot of grief; don't try to install gtk+ from source.   
Use binary packages, instead.


> Then Atk-1.10.1
> ./configure
> make
> that result in this error:
> .. && echo timestamp > s-enum-types-h
> /bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums: -w :bad interpreter : No such  
> file
> or directory
> make[2]: *** [s-enum-types-h] Error 126
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pihl/myPerl/atk/atk-1.10.1/atk'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pihl/myPerl/atk/atk-1.10.1'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> It says the glib-mkenums is not there, but it's not true!!

It's not saying that glib-mkenums is not there -- the error message,  
"/bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums: -w :bad interpreter : No such  
file or directory", parses like this:

Error from /bin/sh.
In the script /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums.
No such file or directory error when trying to use "-w" as the script  
interpreter.

That is, the shebang line in /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums is wrong.   
Since the shell is trying to load "-w" as an interpreter, i'm going  
to guess that the shebang line looks like this:

  #!  -w

while the original looked like this:

  #! path_to_perl@ -w

where @path_to_perl@ is supposed to be replaced by the proper path to  
perl, but has been instead replaced with whitespace or an empty string.



> I hope that someone can see what the problems is.
> I include the rpm list of installed glib,atk packages and part of the
> config.log
> from glib installation.

If you've installed glib already from an RPM, then you have no need  
to install from source.  You need only to ensure that you have the  
development packages installed as well as the runtimes.  (e.g. glib2  
and glib2-devel).



> configure:4950: checking for perl5
> configure:4976: result: /usr/bin/perl
,,,
> configure:5036: checking for /usr/bin/perl
> configure:5069: result: no

This goes along with the hypothesis above, that the path to perl was  
replaced incorrectly in the shebang line.

Why it would fail like this is beyond me.



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