Problem installing giFT....
 

OK, I downloaded gift, cd'ed to it's directory and did the ol' ./configure.

However, I get the error:

checking for _vsnprintf... no
checking for lt_dlopen in -lltdl... no
checking ltdl.h usability... no
checking ltdl.h presence... no
checking for ltdl.h... no
configure: error:
libltdl support is temporarily required. Please install the appropriate
library and header files (which includes the -dev package). See config.log
for more details.


I'm running Mandrake 9.1. Can anyone tell me where I can get the missing files? Thanks

J

google.


Try searching google for libltdl


You could even try "URPMI".

OK, thanks, I'll report back :)

Well, as I look for this thing, I can't help but wonder, why don't the developers include all necessary software in the download?

If it's an issue of the size of the download, there could be a "full" or "stripped" version....

Anyways, I keep looking for this libltdl :)

Why dont they include dependancies?

Because if you included all the dependancies of a program, a 5MB program would be an 80MB download.

Linux is about modularity. "I already have that library, why should I have to install/download it again?".

OK, fair enough, but still, I can't find this file "libltdl".....

I searched numerous google returns and couldn't figure out how to use "URPMI".....

I see you point, I guess I was just a little frustrated :)

Thanks for the help though....

J

K, I need to back up....
 

Please, here my plea:

Can someone give a noob a simple, step-by-step on how to install giFT including the appropriate plug-ins? I am running Mandrake 9.1. Thanks a bunch

J :)

libltdl is a part of libtool. Install libtool and libtool-dev

Thanks Mike
 

OK, I had a version of libltdl installed, but I guess it was an old one, so I uninstalled it and installed a different (newer) version. GiFT then "appeared" to install (after cd'ing to it's directory, doing ./configure, make and make install) but it still doesn't seem to work right.

It installed some files in /usr/local/bin, one executive file called gift, another called giftd, a perl program called giFT-setup, and a plain text doc called gift-setup.

Hmmm but that's as far as I got. I'll show a sample of the text in the plain doc:

main();

sub main
{
my $templates = find_templates ($datadir);
my $configed = find_configured ($confdir);

# no available templates, bogus install
if (scalar @$templates == 0)
{
print <<"__EOF__";

*** ERROR ***

No available configuration templates were found. This could mean that you
legitimately have none and need to install the giFT daemon properly or that
you have placed them in an alternate data directory than this script is
looking. The configuration template path being used is:

$datadir

__EOF__

return;
}

#
# Configuration modules which will be read from the available templates.
# This basically creates a new data structure which is a hash of module
# entries, including ->{path_cfg} and ->{path_tpl}. This data
# structure may be further trimmed through the condition below.
#
my $modules_hash = build_modules ($configed, $templates);

#
# If there have been previously configured modules, we need to ask the
# user if they'd like us to rebuild from available templates or only
# add new configuration templates to the confdir.
#
if (scalar @$configed > 0)
{
print <<"__EOF__";

*** WARNING ***

Previous configuration has been detected. This script is capable of
preserving that configuration and only adding from new available templates.
If you choose no, all presently installed configuration modules will be used
in place of any custom configuration you have. In the future, previous
configuration will be read and used as defaults, but this script does not
currently have such a feature.



So, I need a giFT daemon now? :cry: j/k

Can anyone make some sense of this info? Thanks

J

Well, did you try running giFT-setup, or that program? They are programs, try running them, see what happens.....

Hmmm well yes, I tried doubleclicking them, the executables did nothing and the other two just displayed text. How would I run them from a command prompt?

Thanks

just type their names and hit enter

OK Mike, I ran the setup, but when i try to run the executables I get this error:

[root@a3h33829y42al bin]# giFT
Segmentation fault
[root@a3h33829y42al bin]# giftd
[12:11] *** GIFT-WARNING: deprecated configuration found at /root/.giFT/gift.conf: looking for giftd.conf...
*** GIFT-FATAL: couldn't load protocol in file /usr/local/lib/giFT/libgiFT -V.la: file not found
*** Often times more information can be found in the log file or with the -v command line switch.
[root@a3h33829y42al bin]#

So, what now? :)

try not running it as root

You're right, but now i get:

[john@a3h33829y42al bin]$ giftd
[12:21] *** GIFT-WARNING: deprecated configuration found at /home/john/.giFT/gift.conf: looking for giftd.conf...

*** ERROR: Your setup is incomplete ***

You will need to run gift-setup and be sure that you read absolutely
every configuration option (no, really). Some default configuration
values are considered illegal, and will raise this error message. If you
suspect that you have configured giFT properly, consult the conf files in
/home/john/.giFT/ for diagnostic purposes.

If you are still having problems you should consult the QUICKSTART guide
available from the standard giFT distribution.

I guess I did something wrong :)

I'll run setup again, although some of it is kinda abstract to understand.. Thanks again Mike

Uh, I ran through setup again, and when i ran "giftd" this time it did this:

Wrote /home/john/.giFT/ui/ui.conf.
2 module(s) successfully processed.
[john@a3h33829y42al bin]$ giftd
[12:28] *** GIFT-WARNING: deprecated configuration found at /home/john/.giFT/gift.conf: looking for giftd.conf...

It's been searching for 5 minutes; what should I do? I think it's stuck..... how can I safely exit without messing things up :(?

I think it's running OK, actually. giFT has a rather confusing setup process, giftd is a "server" to which you connect "frontends". That architecture is useful, but should generally not be exposed to the user.

Try running gifToxic or something, which is a gtk2 client i've heard good things about.

Thanks for the reply mhearn.

I tried downloading mhearn, but I keep getting the problems that are starting to look normal for me and Linux; giFToxic says it needs some files which are in gtk+ 2.0.0, when I try to install that it says it need atk, pango and glib; when i try to install atk it says it needs glib; after I insall glib, it still says it needs glib!!!

Think I'll go take a shower :-(

You should put what distro you are using in your user profile, it helps a lot.

GTK2 is a very common package. If you're using something mainstream, you almost certainly have it available, and all modern distros have dependency resolvers, so it should just be a case of issuing the magic command.

Yeah, OK, thanks for the tip,notice the revamped user profile :)

Here is the error I get when I try to configure giFToxic (the end part of the script):

extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking for bison... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking whether included gettext is requested... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.3 libgift >= 0.10.0... Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found

configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.3 libgift >= 0.10.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
[john@a3h33829y42al giFToxic-0.0.9]$

So, that's why I thought I needed gtk+ 2.0, it may just be in the wrong directory :)

Thanks for the help man

You need gtk2-devel - when compiling from the source, you need not just the package but also the devel package.

I don't know the mandrake name for this package, sorry.