Re: Gnumeric Compile Errors :((((((

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Wed, 26 May 1999, Robert Soros wrote:

> Greetings fellow gnome users :-) just like to mention first of all the great work that has been put into Gnumeric, last time i compiled it about 3 weeks ago, it looked like the beginning of a very solid product :)))))) Even though I dont and probably wi


ll never need a spreadsheet (dont have any money), its nice to see that option of a free & open spreadsheet is there , thanx coders :)
> 
> anyways, i did a fresh checkout of bonobo and gnumeric tonight.. bonobo compiles (i'm assuming bonobo is a dependency of gnumeric) cleanly.  But Gnumeric dies during the compile with this error :~(
> 
> ( cd ext ; perl Makefile.PL LIB=/gnome/share/gnumeric/perl/lib )
> Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '-rdynamic'
> Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '-rdynamic'
> Writing Makefile for Gnumeric
> touch ext.timestamp
> cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o perl.so perl.o xsinit.o -rdynamic  -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502/i386-linux-thread/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib/perl5/5.00502/i386-linux-thread/CORE -lperl -lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -


lc -lposix -lcrypt
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/cvs/gnumeric/plugins/perl'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/cvs/gnumeric/plugins'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/cvs/gnumeric/plugins'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/cvs/gnumeric/plugins'
> Making all in src
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/cvs/gnumeric/src'
> orbit-idl -I`/gnome/bin/gnome-config --datadir`/idl ./Gnumeric.idl
> ./Gnumeric.idl:191: Error: `obj' undeclared identifier
> make[2]: *** [Gnumeric-common.c] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/cvs/gnumeric/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cvs/gnumeric'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 
> 
> if anybody could point me in the right direction to correcting this problem i would be very greatful :)))) I havent a clue what this error means unfortunately ..
> 
You'll need to check out the latest version of gnome-libs
from CVS and compile that before compiling Gnumeric.

The top entry in the gnome-libs ChangeLog is:

1999-05-16  Miguel de Icaza  <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>

        * idl/GnomeObject.idl: rename GObject to obj.

NF Stevens