[Gambas-devel] Build failed for Gambas 2.0.0

Benoit Minisini gambas at ...1...
Sat Jan 5 12:26:08 CET 2008


On jeudi 3 janvier 2008, MV wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just built the latest gambas from source, and I hit bugs. My system is
> loosely based on an old fedora core 2 that I patched quite heavily, but
> otherwise running fine (yes, in other words, it's a mess). If nobody else
> has troubles, well, it may be time I upgrade to a state of the art ubuntu,
> but for the record, I think I should share my journey in the building of
> gambas2:
>
> - configure left out various bits and pieces I didn't care about (gtk, pdf,
> firebird, mysql and such). In the past ('til gambas 1.9.47, the last I
> compiled) it has never been a problem. I noticed a new gb.desktop component
> (I didn't knew existed before) that was left out, but I thought it wouldn't
> matter. Otherwise, no errors.
>
> - Make was doing its job until it reached /gb.qt.ext/ where it failed with
> something like "LD can't figure out where -lX11 is pointing to" (just
> kidding, but that was the meaning). So I picked a look at libtool in that
> particular directory, to no avail, and as time was running, I finally did
> it the old way : I cut and pasted the faulty lines in another terminal,
> replaced "-lX11" with a qualified path "-L/usr/X11R6/lib", and when that
> was done, restarted make. I had to perform the same trick to build
> successfuly /gb.qt/, too.
>

Hi,

I have modified some little things in the X11 detection code. Could you 
checkout the 3.0 trunk and test it on your system? You don't have to compile 
everything, just one X11 component like gb.desktop.

Thanks in advance if you could do that.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini




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