Compiling Trouble - libpopt.la

Robert Ramsdell rcriii at ramsdells.net
Sun Dec 10 13:17:46 EST 2006


I am trying to compile the latest revision og gnucash, and am getting
the following error message:

/bin/bash ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -pthread
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
-I../../../lib/libc -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations   -Werror -Wdeclaration-after-statement
-Wno-pointer-sign -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2   -o libgncqof.la
-rpath /usr/local/lib -version-info 1:4:0 deprecated.lo gnc-date.lo
gnc-numeric.lo guid.lo kvp_frame.lo kvp-util.lo md5.lo qofbackend.lo
qofclass.lo qofchoice.lo qofid.lo qofinstance.lo qofquery.lo qofbook.lo
qofevent.lo qoflog.lo qofobject.lo qofquerycore.lo qofreference.lo
qofutil.lo qofsession.lo qofbookmerge.lo -pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic
-lgthread-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl
-lglib-2.0   ../../../lib/libc/libc-missing.la -lpopt -lm  -lm
libtool: link: cannot find the library
`/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../..//libpopt.la' or unhandled
argument `/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../..//libpopt.la'
make[5]: *** [libgncqof.la] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/media/hda6/rcriii/downloads/gnucash/2.0/lib/libqof/qof'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/media/hda6/rcriii/downloads/gnucash/2.0/lib/libqof/qof'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/media/hda6/rcriii/downloads/gnucash/2.0/lib/libqof'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/media/hda6/rcriii/downloads/gnucash/2.0/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/hda6/rcriii/downloads/gnucash/2.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Yet, I have lobpopt.dev, version 1.10-2installed, and libpopt.la exists
in the proper location.

I am running Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy. I was able to compile 2.0.2 from rev15022
before upgrading to Edgy from Dapper.

Robert



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