From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-12-28T14:06:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Fox, FXRuby and fxscintilla


> Weeks?

Yes, weeks.  To be fair, I'm not working at it 24/7.  I usually I spend
half a day trying, get really frustrated and come back to it 4 days later.

> If you're building from source, FOX doesn't depend on any particular
> version of the standard C++ library.

I would think so, but I can't imagine any other reason why the compile
should be failing.

> Since you're talking about dependencies on particular versions of
> libstdc++, am I correct to assume that you're trying to install an RPM
> that you found somewhere, and that rpm is complaining about that
> dependency?

I took an RPM from the FOX website.  It complained that it wanted
libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3.  I didn't have that, but I had
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3.  I figured that it should be close enough, so I
made a symlink and installed with '--nodeps'.

My efforts to find precisely the *1-2* version have failed.  But like you
said, I shouldn't have to.

> To sidestep the issue of binary incompatibilities for this RPM or that
> RPM, I would just go straight to the source (literally). Download the
> latest source tarballs for fox-1.0, FXRuby-1.0 and FXScintilla-1.x.

I've been trying to do that.  Indeed, I'll have to figure out how to do
that eventually because I'll only be at a Linux machine for a couple of
weeks.  Then I'm comming back to the Solaris machine I normally use.
(BTW, the fox compile has failed in both the Sun and Linux machines).

I just tried again, and it failed again:

In file included from ../include/xincs.h:35,
                 from FXComposite.cpp:24:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:-6859: internal error: Segmentation fault

Again, ./configure --with-opengl=opengl ran fine and gave no errors.  But
the compile just didn't work.  A very frustrating problem is that the
compile doesn't always fail at the same place.  The next time I compile I
got:

c++ -DPACKAGE=\"fox\" -DVERSION=\"1.0.29\" -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1
-DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1
-DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1
-DHAVE_PNG_H=1 -DHAVE_ZLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_VSSCANF=1 -I. -I. -I../include
-I../include -DHAVE_XSHM -DHAVE_PNG_H=1 -DHAVE_ZLIB_H=1 -Wall -W
-Wmissing-prototypes -Woverloaded-virtual -Wformat -DHAVE_OPENGL
-DSUN_OGL_NO_VERTEX_MACROS -I/usr/X11R6/include -c FXDVec.cpp -o FXDVec.o
>/dev/null 2>&1
make[1]: *** [FXDVec.lo] Error

So I really can't figure out what is causing the compile to fail.  It
fails on both Linux and Sun, it doesn't fail in the same place each time,
but the ./configure step always works.

> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle

Thank you for trying.  I'll keep working at it, but I'm really stuck.

Daniel.