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Re: compiling with glade on Solaris fails, no __eprintf?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Sun Oct 28 09:54:04 2001

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 28 Oct 2001 09:54:02 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:41:52 -0500"
Message-ID: <sjmk7xf95o5.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> > I can't seem to get this workaround to actually work..  When I add
> > -laudiofile to my LIBS, configure dies even earlier.  So I took
> > another route, to try to track down the problem.
> 
> Try setting LDFLAGS to -L/usr/athena/lib as well, or just setting LIBS
> to "-L/usr/athena/lib -laudiofile".  Otherwise configure will die
> trying to determine that the compiler works.

I tried this and it still failed.  The workaround I found successful
was to change the configure script to use `gnome-config --libs glade
gnomeui` to grab -laudiofile.

[great description skipped]

> One more reason why gnome *-config scripts should invoke sub-configs
> at runtime instead of hardcoding their values.  I'll probably submit a
> bug report against libglade, although almost every gnome package is
> guilty of this sin.  If I'm lucky, the right developers will read it.
> 
> I have added a dependency in the packages file for gnome-libs on
> esound, and rebuilt the libglade configuration scripts for the next
> patch release, which should be today due to the SUNWski screw.

Great.  Thanks.

I've made it further through the configure, but now I realized that
ghttp isn't installed on Solaris, either (it is on Linux).  Sigh.  Yet
another gnucash dependency.  Blah.

-derek

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