Re: A couple of technical questions

[Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO <ruben mrbrklyn com>]

Greeting:

Excuse me for sounding a little terse.  I'm very fustrated with trying,
over
many months, to compile Balsa.  I can get the binary RPM's to work without
ispell pupport, but I've seen this function better.


It's just bang bang bang - one thing after the next.  This package, like
many
gnome packages of late, just completely is in source code Chaos.


Even the 
./configure --enable-gtkhtml --with-gnome
fails.  
=============== Final configuration ===================
    Installing into prefix: /usr/local
      Using multithreading: yes
 Using incomplete features: no
Installing some files into  
            Gnome's prefix: yes (may require root privileges)
   Enable compile warnings: yes
               Use GtkHTML: no
                  Use LDAP: no
                   Use GSS: no
                   Use SSL: no
          Printing support: no (gnome-print >= 0.25 required)


And the compile itself fails....
Making all in intl
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ruben/balsa-1.1.4/intl'
gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
-DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
-DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.
-I../intl -I../lib -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2
-I/usr/lib/glib/include -D_REENTRANT         -Wall -Wno-uninitialized      
  -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes        
-Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith         -Wno-sign-compare -Wsign-promo    
    -Werror  dcgettext.c
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
dcgettext.c: In function `dcgettext__':
dcgettext.c:300: warning: implicit declaration of function `stpcpy'
make[2]: *** [dcgettext.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ruben/balsa-1.1.4/intl'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ruben/balsa-1.1.4'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2



This is a stock Suse 7.1 distro.  It fails to work in Slackware or RH 6.4
either.
I've had very good student programmers also not able to get this to work.

You need a straight foward installation instruction with working links to
every library needed straight down, as if gnome itself is not installed.


and the autoconf needs to be fixed....


Ruben



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