Problems building 2.2.1 (svn) on openSuse 10.3

[Davide Imbeni]

Ooops.

opensp-devel actually includes libosp.la. No need to hack there.

Apologies

Davide


On 10/15/07, Davide Imbeni <davide.imbeni at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot to both Christian and Josh.
>
> Now I was able to compile and run the latest gnucash again!
>
> I just have to add that another .la was missing in opensuse 10.3 in spite
> of having installed all matching *-devel packages: libosp.la
>
> Just in case someone happens to install opensuse 10.3 without being able
> to rely (as I could) on the surviving old 10.2 root, I will attach both
> libpopt.la and libosp.la to this email.
> I found that editing and adapting them was much easier than figuring out
> what to put there from scratch...
>
> Cheers
>
> Davide
>
>
> On 10/15/07, Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:
> >
> > Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 09:33 schrieb Davide Imbeni:
> > > svn version of Gnucash 2.2.1on openSuse 10.3 on a x86_64 arch.
> > >
> > > 1 -- First issue (solved, maybe in the wrong way): after successful
> > > ./configure, make stops with error
> > >
> > > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib64/libpopt.la' or
> > unhandled
> > > argument `/usr/lib64/libpopt.la'
> > > make[5]: *** [libgnc-qof.la] Error 1
> > >
> > > With respect to openSuse 10.2 (where I was able to build gnucash), the
> > > differences in 10.3 are: libpopt.la is missing, and all libpopt.so*are
> > > located in /lib64 instead of /usr/lib64. I just copied the old ( 10.2)
> > > libpopt.la in /lib64, changed libdir=/usr/lib64 to libdir=/lib64 in
> > its
> > > last line and simlinked it to /usr/lib64.
> > > Since I have a VERY faint idea of what .la files actually do: was this
> >
> > > correct? dirty? any better solutions/suggestions?
> >
> > Your solution was correct. Some -devel package of opensuse seems to rely
> > on a
> > file libpopt.la to exist. Somehow the opensuse packagers forgot to
> > create a
> > package that installs that file. But .la files are really doing only
> > very
> > little; copying like what you did is one possible solution, although it
> > could
> > have gone wrong as well. As an eventual solution, opensuse should
> > provide a
> > package that contains libpopt.la; on opensuse 10.2 there was popt-devel,
> > but
> > in the new version this might be called differently.
> >
> > > 2 -- The above allowed make to continue compiling... for a while.
> > > Next error, on which I'm currently stuck, is:
> > >
> > > cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> > > engine-helpers.c: In function 'gnc_generic_to_scm':
> > > engine-helpers.c:2161: warning: passing argument 1 of
> > > 'SWIG_Guile_NewPointerObj' discards qualifiers from pointer target
> > type
> >
> > As josh already explained: That's a warning that is introduced by the
> > newest
> > gcc and/or newest swig packages and we currently don't have an easy way
> > to
> > fix it. Please use --disable-error-on-warning.
> >
> > Christian
> >
>
>
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