RE: gnome-core-1.0.3 wont build

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Do you have them all rebuilt? I (as well as others) would love to get a copy
of them. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dean Elhard [SMTP:dean-elhard@home.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 17, 1999 1:15 PM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Cc:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: gnome-core-1.0.3 wont build
> 
> 
> 
> "Fox, Kevin M" wrote:
> [snip]
> > gsm-protocol.o: In function `commandv':
> > gsm-protocol.o(.text+0x7af): undefined reference to `__va_copy'
> > gsm-protocol.o: In function `gsm_args_to_propv':
> > gsm-protocol.o(.text+0xf7e): undefined reference to `__va_copy'
> > make[2]: *** [session-properties] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gnome-core-1.0.3/gsm'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gnome-core-1.0.3'
> > make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> > Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.71483 (%build)
> 
> This is one of the things I was referring to in my original message.
> 
> I believe this is because the 1.0.1 RPMs were generated with egcs
> and glibc-2.1.  Because a number of the libraries install config
> files (eg. glibconfig.h, gktconfig.h, etc.) which are built based on
> the configuration of the machine on which the RPM was built, you
> inherit some of those dependencies when you install that RPM.
> 
> That particular dependency comes from glibconfig.h (IIRC, sorry if
> I have that wrong, but I am doing this from memory), which defines
> G_VA_COPY to __va_copy which I am guessing is part of egcs.
> 
> Rebuilding glib-1.2.0 with my local compiler fixed that particular
> problem.  It was one of the reasons why I embarked on trying to
> rebuild all of the RPMs from the tarballs, was to try to eliminate
> any more of these hidden dependencies.
> 
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