Re: Failed installing GNUstep-GUI on Debian Squeeze using SVN

[Csanyi Pal]

Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> writes:

> On 21.03.2011 20:23, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>> Richard Frith-Macdonald<richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk>  writes:
>>
>>> On 19 Mar 2011, at 16:39, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fred Kiefer<fredkiefer@gmx.de>  writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On 18.03.2011 22:41, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just compiled GNUstep from SVN on Debian Squeeze: make, base but when
>>>>>> try to install gui get errors:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/SYWKJbAn
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I solve this problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> Although this happened when compiling gui it is actually a base issue. :-)
>>>>> It was just for cases like this that I convinced Richard to move the
>>>>> test framework into the specific modules. If you try to run the tests
>>>>> in base, you will notice that the same problem shows up.
>>
>>>> base/headers/ObjCXX.mm:
>>>> Failed build:
>>>>
>>>> base/NSObject/objc++.mm:
>>>> Failed build:
>>>
>>> I'm guessing these failed because you don't have an Objective-C++
>>> compiler on your system ... I've modified the test framework to
>>> (hopefully) refrain from testing Objective-C++ stuff if there's no
>>> compiler.
>>
>> After I installed gobjc++-4.4 package on my Debian Squeeze system, I
>> configured and builded gnustep make again.
>>
>>>> After this I try to compile again gui but get the error:
>>>> Linking tool make_services ...
>>>> /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2: undefined reference to `gzopen64'
>>>> /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2: undefined reference to `gzdirect@ZLIB_1.2.2.3'
>>>> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so: undefined
>>>> reference to `gzseek64'
>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>
>>>>>  From the error message I would guess that libxml2 requires the zlib,
>>>>> but GNUstep base wasn't linked against that.
>>>
>>> This sounds like a problem in your libxml2 and/or its package
>>> dependencies ... if it uses the zlib stuff then the packaging system
>>> should have ensured that the zlib package was already present.
>>>
>>> One thing you can try is to make sure you have the zlib-devel package
>>> installed, then configure and build gnustep-base again
>>
>> I have installed follows:
>>
>> $ aptitude show libxml2
>> Package: libxml2
>> State: installed
>> Automatically installed: no
>> Version: 2.7.8.dfsg-2
>> Priority: standard
>> Section: libs
>> Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group
>> <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> Uncompressed Size: 1745 k
>> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg)
>>
>> $ aptitude show zlib1g
>> Package: zlib1g
>> State: installed
>> Automatically installed: no
>> Version: 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3
>> Priority: required
>> Section: libs
>> Maintainer: Mark Brown<broonie@debian.org>
>> Uncompressed Size: 176 k
>> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5)
>>
>> I configured and builded base again and run 'make check' with results:
>> 5543 Passed tests
>>    11 Dashed hopes
>>    10 Skipped sets
>>     4 Failed builds
>>     1 Failed test
>>
>> After that I try to configure and build and install gui but still get
>> errors:
>>
>> Making all in Tools ...
>> Making all for tool make_services...
>>   Linking tool make_services ...
>> /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2: undefined reference to `gzopen64'
>> /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2: undefined reference to `gzdirect@ZLIB_1.2.2.3'
>> /usr/local/lib/libgnustep-base.so: undefined reference to `gzseek64'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[4]: *** [obj/make_services] Error 1
>> make[3]: *** [internal-tool-all_] Error 2
>> make[2]: *** [make_services.all.tool.variables] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [internal-all] Error 2
>>
>> Any advices to go further?
>
> No new advise, but I would like to reiterate Richards comment to check
> for the developer package of zlib1g. You only listed the normal
> packages both for libxml2 and zlib1g. To compile GNUstep base with
> full features you will also need the corresponding development
> packages which contain the headers and the link stubs for the
> libraries.
> The next thing you should check is to run ldd on the GNUstep base
> library. In my case the command is:
> ldd /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so

I find that that in my case this command is:
$ ldd /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so

> Please report back the results. If zlib doesn't show up in that list
> we need to find out why. For this we will need the configure log file
> for base.

linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffc4db5000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f952b244000)
libobjc.so.2 => /usr/lib/libobjc.so.2 (0x00007f952b028000)
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007f952acd7000)
libffi.so.5 => /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 (0x00007f952aacf000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x00007f952a8b7000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f952a6ae000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f952a4aa000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f952a293000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f952a010000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f9529dfa000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9529a99000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f952bba2000)

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