Strange compiling problems

[Michael Bruce <bruce infinet com>]

I haven't been able to compile GNOME for a while, due to weird libtool
problems.  I fixed them recently (by forcing the use of my local
libtool rather than the included one), and I've been eager to get the
latest release running.

I've had problems.

The show-stopper at the moment is related to gdk_imlib.  Gnome-libs
needs this (or so it says when I try to compile it), so I've tried to
get it compiled.  while doing so, I get:

<ERROR>

/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DDJPEG_PROG=\"/usr/bin/djpeg\"  -DCJPEG_PROG=\"/usr/bin/cjpeg\" -DCONVERT_PATH=\"/usr/bin\" -DNETPBM_PATH=\"/usr/bin\" -DSYSTEM_IMRC=\"/opt/gnome/etc/imrc\" -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I/opt/gnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/inclu
de -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -c cache.c
gcc -DDJPEG_PROG=\"/usr/bin/djpeg\" -DCJPEG_PROG=\"/usr/bin/cjpeg\" -DCONVERT_PATH=\"/usr/bin\" -DNETPBM_PATH=\"/usr/bin\" -DSYSTEM_IMRC=\"/opt/gnome/etc/imrc\"
 -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I/opt/gnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -c -fPIC -DPIC cache.c
In file included from /opt/gnome/include/gdk/gdktypes.h:25,
                 from /opt/gnome/include/gdk/gdk.h:23,
                 from gdk_imlib_types.h:1,
                 from gdk_imlib.h:5,
                 from cache.c:3:
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:536: parse error before `gssize'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:536: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:537: parse error before `gsize'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:537: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:538: parse error before `GQuark'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:538: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:539: parse error before `GTime'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:539: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:629: parse error before `key_id'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:687: parse error before `guint8'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:687: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:689: parse error before `}'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1247: parse error before `mask'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1265: parse error before `mask'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1396: parse error before `*'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1399: parse error before `*'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1426: parse error before `g_quark_try_string'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1426: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1427: parse error before `g_quark_from_static_string'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1427: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1428: parse error before `g_quark_from_string'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1428: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1429: parse error before `quark'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1437: parse error before `GQuark'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1439: parse error before `GQuark'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1443: parse error before `GQuark'

. . .

</ERROR>

And that sort of thing, that goes on for a very long time.  I
assume that I'm the only one having this problem, since many others
seem able to compile just fine.  Any help would be appreciated.

-- 
Michael Bruce (mabruce@students.wisc.edu / bruce@infinet.com)