problems compiling ORBit

[jhughes <jhughes kos net>]

Hello,

I recently got the sources for Gnome 1.2. I began compiling in order like
the instructions said, but when I got to ORBit, I encountered problems,
specifically the following:

gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/tstidl tstidl.o .libs/libIDL.so -L/usr/local/lib
-lglib -L/usr/local/lib -lglib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
.libs/libIDL.so: undefined reference to `__IDL_lex_init'
.libs/libIDL.so: undefined reference to `__IDL_lex_cleanup'
.libs/libIDL.so: undefined reference to `__IDL_lex'
.libs/libIDL.so: undefined reference to `__IDL_prev_token_line'
.libs/libIDL.so: undefined reference to `__IDL_in'
.libs/libIDL.so: undefined reference to `__IDL_cur_token_line'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [tstidl] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ORBit-0.5.1/libIDL'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ORBit-0.5.1'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2


I discovered a user with a similar problem in the mailing list archive
(the same "undefined references") who was told that maybe he needed flex,
but that's not the problem here. Judging from the archive, this libIDL
compilation seems to be a real sticky point with a lot of people, so I'm
hoping someone else has solved this problem.

I'm running Suse 6.2, kernel 2.2.10, (oh, and flex  2.5.4 :) ).

(While I'm at it, is there a binary package available for suse 6.2?)

thanks,
James