RE: Problems compiling gnome-libs-1.0.57

[Craig Orsinger <orsingerc epg-gw1 lewis army mil>]

On 04-Apr-00 Bruce Z. Lysik wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Been trying to compile gnome-libs 1.0.57, and I'm running into a
> problem.
> 
> I get to a point, then:
> 
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -o .libs/gnome-name-service
> gnome-name-server.o .libs/libgnorbagtk.so -lz -lm -lname-server
> -L/usr/local/lib -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lglib
> -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lz -lm -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> ld: cannot open -lname-server: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [gnome-name-service] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/workspace/gnome-libs-1.0.57/libgnorba'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/workspace/gnome-libs-1.0.57'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 
> I thought that this might be caused by ORBit being out of date, so I
> went and upgraded it to 0.5.1.  But still no go.  Any solutions?
> 
> This is on an old Redhat 5.2 box.  (Though all the packages have been
> steadily upgraded as needed.)

        I installed ORBit 0.5.1 using the "rpm -tb" method, and it 
installed a library file named "/usr/lib/libname-server.a". I can't
really add much more information, but your suspicion that ORBit
provides this file appears to be correct. BTW, I did this on a RH6.1
system.

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Date: 04-Apr-00  Time: 11:46:39

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