problems building 1.7.1 and 1.7.2

[Derek Atkins]

I suspect that the libtool .deb (that supplied your libltdl.la) was
b0rked..

-derek

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

> 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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