problems building 1.7.1 and 1.7.2

[Craig Askings]

Just a follow up. I reinstalled g-wrap and it is now compiling.
Thanks for your help Derek, you have made all the difference.

Craig.

Craig Askings wrote:

> Hi Derek,
>
> That find command did the trick. It turns out the borked .la file was 
> part of my install of gwrap 1.3.2.
> Now I just have to work out how to make it generate the correct .la 
> files as the make of gnucash fails without them.
>
> Making all in core-utils
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnucash-1.7.2/src/core-utils'
> FLAVOR=gnome guile -c \
>          "(set! %load-path (cons \"/usr/share/guile\" %load-path)) \
>           (primitive-load \"./gw-core-utils-spec.scm\") \
>           (gw:generate-wrapset \"gw-core-utils\")"
> **** NOTE: this wrapset appears to be empty !?
> ERROR: Unbound variable: gw:new-wrapset
> make[3]: *** [gw-core-utils.c] Error 2
>
> Regards,
> Craig Askings.
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Craig Askings <haakon@themadship.dhs.org> writes:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Hi again...
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I'm unable to build 1.7.1 or 1.7.2. ./configure runs ok but when I run
>>> make I get
>>>
>>> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnucash-1.7.1/src/core-utils'
>>> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc -I/usr/local/include/g-wrap
>>> -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include  -g -O2 -Wall
>>> -Wno-unused -Wno-uninitialized -Wmissing-prototypes
>>> -Wmissing-declarations -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wall
>>> -Wunused   -o libgw-core-utils.la -rpath /usr/local/lib -module
>>> -L/usr/local/lib -lgwrap-wct -lgwrap-glib -L/usr/lib -lguile
>>> -lqthreads -lpthread -lm gw-core-utils.lo libcore-utils.la -lpopt -lm
>>> -lm
>>> grep: /tmp/buildd/libtool-1.4.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la: No such
>>> file or directory
>>> sed: can't read
>>> /tmp/buildd/libtool-1.4.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la: No such file
>>> or directory
>>> libtool: link:
>>> `/tmp/buildd/libtool-1.4.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la' is not a
>>> valid libtool archive
>>> make[3]: *** [libgw-core-utils.la] Error 1
>>>   
>>
>>
>> As I said on IRC, the problem is that _some_ .la on your system is
>> corrupt.  You might want to do something like:
>>
>> find / -name \*.la -print | xargs grep 
>> /tmp/buildd/libtool-1.4.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la
>>
>> This will tell you which package is broken so you can report it to
>> Debian.  This is probably related to the "libtool relinking problem"
>> (I don't have the Debian bugID handy) -- some people figured the right
>> way to fix libtool was to get it not to relink, and well that isn't
>> really the right answer.  Similarly, some people think the right way
>> to "install" is to use --prefix=, instead of using DESTDIR, and that
>> screws up libtool, too.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I'm running Debian Testing with bits of unstable and g-wrap 1.3.2
>>> manually installed.
>>> Am I missing a program or something?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> No, you've got a program that was built (well, installed) poorly.
>> That 'find' command will tell you which package(s) is(are) broken.
>> Once you find that, you can rename the XXX.la out of the way (I would
>> recommend XXX.la.b0rked).
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Regrads,
>>> Craig Askings
>>>   
>>
>>
>> -derek
>>
>>  
>>
>
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