[Gambas-user] Little problem compiling 2.0.0 version (Bug or not?)

[Benoit Minisini]

On mardi 22 janvier 2008, Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> Alle 17:44, martedì 22 gennaio 2008, Benoit Minisini ha scritto:
> > On mardi 22 janvier 2008, Piramix Tecnologías wrote:
> > > Yesterday I tried to start using stable version 2.0.0 (I've been using
> > > 1.9.46 until that moment). I had no problem at all but I decided to
> > > upgrade. During the compilation happened that the gb.desktop component
> > > was disabled (I don't know what is it really since it was not there
> > > before). Compilation and installation ran good BUT when I tried to run
> > > gambas2 I got the following message: "ERROR: #27: Cannot load component
> > > 'gb.desktop': cannot find library file". It's obviously a problem
> > > related to some X11 library (libXtst.so is present at /usr/X11R6/lib).
> > > Anyway, messing a little with the configuration script at the
> > > gb.desktop folder I disabled the part where it checks for
> > > XTestQueryExtension in -lXtst (still don't know what's about). After
> > > that gb.desktop component was enabled and I cuold finally compile
> > > passing the -i option to make. Finally, gambas2 is running like a charm
> > > but I'd still like to know what happened here. I'm using
> > > slackware-11.0 with kernel 2.6.20.11 and 2.6.19rc6, gcc versión 3.4.6 &
> > > Make version 3.81. I'm just learning C code so, my knowledge is very
> > > limited. I'll appreciate some help here. Thanks.
> >
> > Please send the output of the configure process.
> >
> > The component was disabled because it couldn't succeed in finding the
> > include files of the libXtst library. But if it works after removing the
> > test, that means that these includes are there but that configure didn't
> > find them. If you could tell me where the libXtst includes are located on
> > Slackware so that I can fix the search, it would be cool. :-)
> >
> > Regards,
>
> We discussed this problem a couple (look for mails of 7 january) of weeks
> ago, because I had the same problem with Slackware 11. You send me a new
> configure.ac for gb.desktop to test and that solved the problem. Anyway the
> other solution is:
>
> export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib"
>
> before ./configure
>
> I've attached the configure.ac.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stefano Palmeri

OK, I remember now. The fix is in the svn repository, at /branches/2.0. You 
will get it with the 2.1 release!

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini