Re: Still more problems on the way

Hi Andy,

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>> So it's up to the (newly updated) 'master' branch from git-gnome again.
>> configure tells me that there is something to be compiled:
>>
>>   configure: Some packages will not be built.
>>   
>>   These wrappers will be built:
>>     atk cairo gconf glib gtk pango
>>   
>>   These wrappers failed their prerequisites and will NOT be built:
>>     corba gnome-vfs libglade libgnome libgnomecanvas libgnomeui
>>   
>>   Check the README files in the above subdirectories for more information
>>   on the prerequisites of a package.
>
> FWIW, the ones for which you don't have the prerequisites are deprecated
> upstream.  GConf is also deprecated upstream.  So it's no huge loss, I
> guess?

I don't think so either, but I'm just getting up to speed ;)

>>   [dzu@deepthought ~][0]$ guile-gnome-2 
>>   GNU Guile 2.0.3.62-4eb28
>>   Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>   
>>   Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
>>   This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>>   under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.
>>   
>>   Enter `,help' for help.
>>   scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (oop goops) (gnome gtk))
>>   ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
>>   ;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
>>   ;;; compiling /usr/local/share/guile-gnome-2/gnome/gtk.scm
>>   ;;; compiling /usr/local/share/guile-gnome-2/gnome/gw/gdk.scm
>>   ;;; compiling /usr/local/share/guile/site/g-wrap/gw/standard.scm
>>   ;;; WARNING: compilation of /usr/local/share/guile/site/g-wrap/gw/standard.scm failed:
>>   ;;; ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "/usr/local/lib/g-wrap/modules/libgw-guile-standard", message: "file not found"
>
> These errors are important.  In this case, do you have a
> /usr/local/lib/g-wrap/modules/libgw-guile-standard.la ?
>
> If you do, you probably have an .so as well, but something is wrong with
> it.  Is /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ?

It is indeed, but nobody ran ldconfig after installation of the
libraries.  Doing that manually allows me to execute the hello world
example, hurray!  How should this have happened automatically?

> Guile's error messages here are terrible, due to a libtool bug.  But on
> GNU libc systems, you can run the whole thing like:
>
>   LD_DEBUG=symbols guile-gnome-2
>
> That will give you a lot of spew, but eventually it will give you the
> precise reason that the dlopen failed.  See LD_DEBUG=help for more info.

Ah oh uh.  I'm glad the problem was solved before doing this ;)

> Another thing to try is ./dev-environ guile from the builddir.

Thanks for the tip.

> Getting closer, eh? :-)

I think I'm there, thanks!
  Detlev

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