Re: gnome-libs seg-faults during install

[Harald Maier <maierh myself com>]

I had the same problem with "gnome-gen-mimedb" on my system. I
installed additional the libc6 and then the problem was gone.

Harald

Ron Gage <rongage@att.net> writes:

> Hi all from Saginaw Michigan.
> 
> I have not been having much luck trying to get gnome-libs to install
> correctly.  It always falls down just after installing the html pages in
> ./devel-docs
> 
> First problem I encounter is that the install program can't find a file
> called 'index.sgml'.  Make appears to recover from this without any
> problem, but trips up on the next problem, some program the install script
> is trying to run called gtkdoc-fixxref.  Sorry, I looked everywhere on my
> system and through all the present source code but no such animal exists.
> This is a fatal error for make.  Can only get past it by removing the
> install target in the makefile in devel-docs.
> 
> Last problem, after bypassing the devel-docs install stuff, make continues
> on for a bit more, then encounters a call to a program called
> gnome-gen-mimedb.  This program segfaults when run and this kills make.
> 
> Help!!!
> 
> System is Slackware 3.5, kernel 2.0.34, Xfree86 3.3.3, libc5 2.0.44, egcs
> 2-90-29 with the objective c extensions (version unknown, as distributed
> with Slackware).  The library appears to compile just fine and running
> 'make check' shows the library passing all 5 tests.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Ron Gage - Saginaw, MI
> (rongage@att.net)
> 
> 
> 
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