Re: gaim compile hell

From: Him (somewhere_at_overtherainbow.net)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:52:15 -0600

Draco Ravenloft wrote:

> Ok, here's the thing. I'm running what's theoretically SuSE 9.0.
> Theoretically because it's far from stock I upgraded this, and
> replaced that and deleted other things. Now I'm trying to install
> gaim 1.0.3
> The rpms off of their website haven't worked in suse since like v0.6x,
> and the newest rpm for suse I can find is 0.85. So I grabbed the
> tar.gz file and set about doing things the long way. no big deal
> right?
>
> no, well other than a few extra bits that needed upgrading like my
> glib2 package, and libao packages ./configure completed without any
> errors that I gave a damn about (I don't use silc or zephyr so I'm not
> bothered that it couldn't find them) ok, so it's ready to compile, so
> far so good right... well sure, make runs fine, no errors that I can
> find and just to see if I was missing something I tried using things
> like krpmbuild and kconfigure to automate things seeing if they'd tell
> me there was a problem preventing me from continuing to make install.
> Nope, all clear.
>
> make install............ ok now there's a problem. for some reason
> it's exiting with errors. don't know what they are, just that the
> most specific thing I can find is exiting with error 2, or exiting
> with "invalid error code"
>
> I'm not going to waste space with the logs I made. if anyone knows
> what's going on any better than I do or thinks they might if they
> could see what heppened
> http://www.angelfire.com/ga/draco81/help that's got the output from
> the ./configure make and make install and the log that ./configure
> made itself.
>
> I'd appreciate any sense anyone could make out of this
> draco81@comcast.net
>
> and anyone with the oh so helpful "have you googled for it" yes thank
> you, I found several thousand things none of which I found terribly
> current or useful so you can save your time.

You need to go here:

http://packman.links2linux.org/ 

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