[sugar] Build failure of dbus-glib

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 12:00 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Got an error:
> 
> *** error during stage build of dbus-glib: ########## Error running make   *** [19/29]
> 
> Looks like expat-devel is required:
> 
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I.. -I/home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/include/dbus-1.0 -I/home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/include/glib-2.0 -I/home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/include/libxml2 -DDBUS_COMPILATION=1 -DDBUS_LOCALEDIR=\"/home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/locale\" -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1 -g -O2 -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wfloat-equal -Wsign-compare -MT dbus-gloader-expat.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/dbus-gloader-expat.Tpo -c dbus-gloader-expat.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/dbus-gloader-expat.o
> dbus-gloader-expat.c:25:19: error: expat.h: No such file or directory
> dbus-gloader-expat.c:40: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'memsuite'
> 
> 
> doing a 'yum install expat-devel' and selecting '[1] rerun stage build'
> gets past that error, but I get another that isn't so clear:
> 
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wfloat-equal -Wsign-compare -o .libs/test-dbus-glib my-object-marshal.o test-dbus-glib.o  -L/home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib /home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/libxml2.so -ldl -lz -lm ../../dbus/.libs/libdbus-glib-1.so /home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/libglib-2.0.so ../../dbus/.libs/libdbus-gtool.a /home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/libdbus-1.so -lnsl  -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib
> ../../dbus/.libs/libdbus-gtool.a(dbus-gloader-expat.o): In function `description_load_from_string':
> /home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/source/dbus-glib/dbus/dbus-gloader-expat.c:204: undefined reference to `XML_ParserCreate_MM'
> /home/rnorwood/git/sugar-jhbuild/source/dbus-glib/dbus/dbus-gloader-expat.c:211: undefined reference to `XML_SetUserData'
> 
> (etc.)
> 

What expat version are you using?

And does this fix things:

sugar-jhbuild buildone dbus-glib -a

> 
> Also, are build failures like these helpful to you guys, or just
> distractions?
> 

Useful! We want to improve the build stuff, so that people has a lower
barrier to contribute.

Marco