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cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:

> I'm trying to build gtk+-1.2.3 so I can eventually build, install and use
> GIMP. However, there's one problem that I can't fathom at the moment.
> 
> I have already compiled and installed glib-1.2.3, and at one stage I had a
> problem earlier with the gtk build where it would find the glib-config
> program, but tried to tell me the wrong version of glib was installed (there
> is only one version - 1.2.3 - installed on the system). Running glib-config
> manually showed it was working, so the problem must have been in gtk's
> configure script.
> 
> Anyway, I resolved that one by using the following config options for gtk's
> configure script:
> 
> sh ./configure --prefix=/X --with-glib=/azwan/glib-1.2.3 --with-x
> 
> '/X' is my symlink to /usr/openwin. The '--with-glib' option got around the
> glib-searching problem with the script, and the build then progressed to the
> point it's at now, which is this:
> 
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o testgtk  testgtk.o
> libgtk.la                                               ../gdk/libgdk.la
> -L/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib -lXext -lX11 -lsocket  -lnsl
> /azwan/glib-1.2.3/libglib.la /azwan/glib-1.2.3/gmodule.la -lm 
> libtool: link: `/azwan/glib-1.2.3/gmodule.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `testgtk'
> Current working directory /azwan/X/gtk+-1.2.3/gtk
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory /azwan/X/gtk+-1.2.3
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive-am'
> 
> What does the error code about 'gmodule.la' mean? I had a look back through
> the glib directory and could not find any file named 'gmodule.la', so is the
> real meaning of the message simply that it can't find the file in question?
> 

I think it's actually due to the fact that the libtool supplied with most gnu
software really _hates_ solaris. I'd recommend that you firstly download and
install the absolute latest version of libtool (since this is more
solaris-friendly), and then go through your configure scripts and change 


# Always use our own libtool.
LIBTOOL='$(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool'


to the following:

# Always use our own libtool.
#LIBTOOL='$(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool'
LIBTOOL=/usr/local/bin/libtool   


instead, where /usr/local/bin/libtool is your own locally built version.

Everything should work just fine then.


James
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