Re: gnome-perl build fails

[Junichi Saito <j saito wanadoo fr>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Richard Hult wrote:

>Gnome-perl seems to fail building lately:
>
>In file included from /opt/gnome/include/libgnomeui/libgnomeui.h:35,
>                 from build/GtkDefs.h:23,
>                 from build/GtkDefs.c:10:
>/opt/gnome/include/libgnomeui/gnome-icon-list.h:48: parse error before `->'
>/opt/gnome/include/libgnomeui/gnome-icon-list.h:48: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union/opt/gnome/include/libgnomeui/gnome-icon-list.h:73: parse error before `:'
>/opt/gnome/include/libgnomeui/gnome-icon-list.h:74: parse error before `:'
>
>[lots of lines like the above]
>
>/opt/gnome/include/libgnomeui/gnome-icon-list.h:191: parse error before `*'
>/opt/gnome/include/libgnomeui/gnome-icon-list.h:193: parse error before `*'
>In file included from build/GtkDefs.c:10:
>build/GtkDefs.h:757: parse error before `*'
>build/GtkDefs.h:757: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>build/GtkDefs.h:758: parse error before `*'
>build/GtkDefs.h:758: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>build/GtkDefs.h:759: parse error before `*'
>build/GtkDefs.h:759: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>make: *** [build/GtkDefs.o] Error 1
>
>glib/gtk/gnome-libs etc latest from cvs. RH5.2 i386 + kernel 2.2.5
>
>Anyone knows what's wrong?
>
>Regards,
>Richard

Isn't your perl thread supported ?

If so, try this :

Before running 'make', edit gnome-perl/build/GtkDefs.h and put the
followong just before the gnome's includes:

#define dirty

This works, not perfectly, for me.

junichi