Slackware help needed
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| Author | Content |
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| Sander_Marechal Jul 31, 2008 6:45 AM EDT |
As evidenced by the very long threads about caitlyn's slackware comments, there are a couple of slackware fans around. Can you help me? I recently released gnome-hearts 0.3 but someone using slackware 12.1 keeps having problems getting it to compile and install. See the comments here: http://www.gnomefiles.org/comment.php?soft_id=1372 The user in question is Andrea. I'm not familiar with slackware at all. Can you try building gnome-hearts 0.3 on your own slackware box to see if it's a general slackware problem or something specific to Andrea? Can you help me debug it please? Cheers! |
| jdixon Jul 31, 2008 6:51 AM EDT |
Well, I won't have much free time before the weekend, but I can try to take a look then. Maybe someone else can get to it before I can. |
| bigg Jul 31, 2008 7:45 AM EDT |
I will depending on when I get GNOME back on my installation. It may be today if I get a chance. (For non-Slackware users, there is something goofy about the relationship between GNOME and Slackware. I don't know what it it is, but this is the one thing about Slackware that I would change if given the opportunity.) |
| gus3 Jul 31, 2008 8:12 AM EDT |
Running SLAMD64 here, and I got something very similar to Andrea's output: bash-3.1$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Mar 23 2008, 14:50:58) [GCC 4.2.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from distutils import sysconfig >>> print '/'.join(sysconfig.get_config_vars('LIBPL','LDLIBRARY'))+' '+sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBS')+' '+sysconfig.get_config_var('LINKFORSHARED') /usr/lib64/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.so -lpthread -ldl -lutil -Xlinker -export-dynamic >>> bash-3.1$ bash-3.1$ locate libpython2.5.so /usr/lib64/libpython2.5.so.1.0 /usr/lib64/libpython2.5.so bash-3.1$ Definitely something amiss there. |
| gus3 Jul 31, 2008 8:23 AM EDT |
A quick experiment shows that omitting the explicit path from the Makefile gives a successful build: PYTHON_LIBS = -lpython2.5 -lpthread -ldl -lutil -Xlinker -export-dynamic Just let the linker find it on its own, I guess. Not sure how well that fares on other platforms, Linux or otherwise. |
| jdixon Jul 31, 2008 5:37 PM EDT |
OK, in my case, since my gnome install is a very limited garnome installation, I had to modify the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable and add the ~/garnome/lib directory so it would pick up the gnome libraries. As with gus3, the ./configure picks up a spurious /usr/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.so. The correct location is /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so. However, modifying the Makefile by changing it to either -lpython2.5 or /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so doesn't correct the error in my case. It still gives the following: gcc -Wall -g -g -O2 -o gnome-hearts hearts.o background.o cards.o cards-image.o cfg.o events.o player-api.o player.o preimage.o ui.o -pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/home/jdixon/garnome/lib -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2 -lgnomevfs-2 -lgnomecanvas-2 -lgnome-2 -lpopt -lbonobo-2 -lbonobo-activation -lart_lgpl_2 -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 /usr/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.so -lpthread -ldl -lutil -Xlinker -export-dynamic gcc: /usr/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.so: No such file or directory I have no idea where it's picking up the path. It's nowhere in the Makefile. This is a full install of Slackware 12.1 running on an Athlon Sempron. Let me know if there are any tests you'd like me to run. |
| gus3 Jul 31, 2008 8:10 PM EDT |
Check the Makefile in the src/ directory. I bumped into the same gotcha. Although, technically, shouldn't the automake/autoconf be adjusted instead? |
| jdixon Aug 01, 2008 3:03 AM EDT |
> Check the Makefile in the src/ directory. Yep. That's where it was hiding. I don't compile things often enough to always remember that there can be multiple Makefiles. Changing that one gives a complete compile, though it won't run because it can't find the libraries which are in ~/garnome/lib. Strange, as the compile found them, but not worth pursuing, as most people won't be using garnome. > Although, technically, shouldn't the automake/autoconf be adjusted instead? Yes, but that's not something I've ever tried to do. I'll let our esteemed programmer track that down. :) |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 01, 2008 4:38 PM EDT |
Problem found and solved. Thanks guys. Apparently, the Slackware package doesn't make a symlink from /usr/lib(64)/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.so to /usr/lib(64)/libpython2.5.so. A bunch of other distros I tested did have this symlink. |
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