Compiling glib 2.12 fails: [gmarshal.h] Error 127

furryspider · 03-03-2007, 08:28 AM

Hello kind gents and ladies,

I'm here once more to beseech you for some gracious guidance. The board search didn't help me much. There's hundreds of threads about glib, but they mostly deal with it not being found correctly, which this is not about.

I am trying to compile glib 2.12.9 on a Slackware 11 installation (end target would be an up-to-date GTK with Dev-Gimp and Epiphany). ./configure runs through smoothly (I give it "--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-threads --with-threads=posix --enable-shared"), but make encounters difficulties:

Code:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Benutzer/src08/glib-2.12.9/glib'
Making all in gobject
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/Benutzer/src08/glib-2.12.9/gobject'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib-GObject\" -I.. -I../glib -I.. -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGOBJECT_COMPILATION -DG_DISABLE_CONST_RETURNS  -pthread  -g -O2 -Wall -MT glib-genmarshal.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/glib-genmarshal.Tpo" \
          -c -o glib-genmarshal.o `test -f 'glib-genmarshal.c' || echo './'`glib-genmarshal.c; \
        then mv -f ".deps/glib-genmarshal.Tpo" ".deps/glib-genmarshal.Po"; \
        else rm -f ".deps/glib-genmarshal.Tpo"; exit 1; \
        fi
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall   -o glib-genmarshal  glib-genmarshal.o ../glib/libglib-2.0.la
mkdir .libs
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o .libs/glib-genmarshal glib-genmarshal.o  ../glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.so
creating glib-genmarshal
make glib-genmarshal
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/Benutzer/src08/glib-2.12.9/gobject'
make[3]: »glib-genmarshal« ist bereits aktualisiert. /* =="is already up to date" */
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/Benutzer/src08/glib-2.12.9/gobject'
echo "#ifndef __G_MARSHAL_H__" > xgen-gmh \
        && echo "#define __G_MARSHAL_H__" >> xgen-gmh \
        && ./glib-genmarshal --nostdinc --prefix=g_cclosure_marshal ./gmarshal.list --header >> xgen-gmh \
        && echo "#endif /* __G_MARSHAL_H__ */" >> xgen-gmh \
        && (cmp -s xgen-gmh gmarshal.h 2>/dev/null || cp xgen-gmh gmarshal.h) \
        && rm -f xgen-gmh xgen-gmh~ \
        && echo timestamp > stamp-gmarshal.h
make[2]: execvp: true: Keine Berechtigung /* =="Permission denied" */
make[2]: *** [gmarshal.h] Fehler 127 /* =="Error 127" */
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Benutzer/src08/glib-2.12.9/gobject'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 /* =="Error 1" */
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Benutzer/src08/glib-2.12.9'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2 /* =="Error 2" */

Same deal with glib 2.12.8.

Does anyone know what the problem is? Am I not fulfilling some build requirement (the README basically only talks about pkg-config and make, which are both there)? What am I missing?

My theory so far is that make changes into the gobject directory, finds something there that makes it go back again, and THEN tries to do something which it should be doing while IN gobject (namely calling ./glib-genmarshal). However, I'm not knowledgable enough to judge if this assessment is even right, let alone what to do to correct the problem.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

berbae · 03-03-2007, 10:27 AM

Hello

Quote:

make[2]: execvp: true: Keine Berechtigung /* =="Permission denied" */

This means you have not the permission to run the 'true' command.
Check this with
ls -l /bin/true
you should get something like :
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12436 déc 21 07:15 /bin/true
If this is not the case do under root:
chmod 755 /bin/true

Another possibility would be to run the 'make' command under root login.
Good luck.

furryspider · 03-03-2007, 01:27 PM

Yes, that's what it was!

I didn't realize this was referring to the _command_ true. Thought it was the result of an evaluation or something.

I adjusted the permissions, now it works like a charm.
Thank you!