Re: Solaris v2.6 - is it supported?

[Drazen Kacar <dave srce hr>]

R.J. Wareham wrote:
> Graham Leggett wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a newly installed and patched Solaris v2.6 installation which I
> > am trying to build Gnome on. All the Gnome source prerequisites build
> > and install fine using gcc.
> > 
> > Problems begin when I get to control-center and gnome-core. The compile
> > fails as below.
> > 
> > It seems that there is a libXpm library that is missing from the Solaris
> > system, however Gnome somehow finds header files for them - which causes
> > the build to fail at linking.
> 
> Solaris ISTR has an interesting 'feature' of its linker whereby, symbols
> are only resolved in libraries from files /before/ it in the command
> line. So one has to be careful of the order, ensuring that required
> libraries, sucha as Xlib etc, are included in the command line before
> the libraries that need them.

If you take a closer look at the link line (which has an interesting
'feature' of being completely unreadable), you'll see that -lXpm isn't
there at all.

libgtkxmhtml.so (whatever that is) should have been linked with libXpm
(recommended by the platform build documentation), but Gnome has another
interesting 'feature' -- it ignores the platform build rules. And
then you have to deal with situations like this one.

> > /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused  -o
> > theme-selector-capplet ../../control-center/libcapplet.la `imlib-config
> > --libs` file.o globals.o lister.o main.o  signals.o demo.o gui.o
> > install.o ../../control-center/libcapplet.la    -L/usr/local/lib
> > -L/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lORBitCosNaming
> > -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lglib -lresolv -lnsl -lsocket -lm   -lgnomeui
> > -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXext -lX11
> > -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -lresolv -lposix4 -lnsl -lsocket
> > -laudiofile -lm -ldb -lglib -ldl        -lImlib  -lgtkxmhtml -ljpeg -lpng -lz
> > -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl
> > -lm -lgnorba
> > gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -o .libs/theme-selector-capplet
> > ../../control-center/.libs/libcapplet.so -L/usr/local/lib
> > -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lglib -lresolv -lnsl
> > -lsocket -lm -lm -ldl -L/usr/openwin/lib -lgnorba -lORBitCosNaming
> > -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE
> > -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -lresolv
> > -lposix4 -lnsl -lsocket -laudiofile -lm -ldb -lglib -ldl
> > -L/usr/local/lib -lImlib -ljpeg -ltiff -lgif -lpng -lz -lm -lXext
> > -L/usr/openwin/lib -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl file.o
> > globals.o lister.o main.o signals.o demo.o gui.o install.o
> > ../../control-center/.libs/libcapplet.so -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP
> > -lORBitutil -lglib -lresolv -lnsl -lsocket -lm -lm -ldl -lgnorba
> > -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl
> > -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXext -lX11 -lgnome
> > -lgnomesupport -lesd -lresolv -lposix4 -lnsl -lsocket -laudiofile -lm
> > -ldb -lglib -ldl -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib -L/usr/local/lib
> > -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lglib -lresolv -lnsl
> > -lsocket -lm -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk
> > -lgmodule -lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -lresolv -lposix4
> > -lnsl -lsocket -laudiofile -lm -ldb -lglib -ldl -lImlib -lgtkxmhtml
> > -ljpeg -lpng -lz -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext
> > -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lgnorba -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib
> > ld: warning: file ../../control-center/.libs/libcapplet.so: attempted
> > multiple inclusion of file
> > Undefined                       first referenced
> >  symbol                             in file
> > XpmFreeXpmImage                     /usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so
> > XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer         /usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so
> > XpmGetErrorString                   /usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so
> > XpmFreeXpmInfo                      /usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so
> > XpmCreateXpmImageFromData           /usr/local/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so
> > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
> > .libs/theme-selector-capplet
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > *** Error code 1

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