problems building 1.7.1 and 1.7.2

[Derek Atkins]

Craig Askings <haakon@themadship.dhs.org> writes:

> 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.

Interesting...  Can you try to "make clean; make all install" in the
g-wrap package again?

> 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

This is.... WEIRD.  Do you have competing versions of g-wrap installed?

> Regards,
> Craig Askings.

-derek

> 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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