Gaim 5.9-1 on Slack - Compiling error
 

Just downloaded the latest version of Gaim onto my Slack 8.1 system. I get the following compiler error:

Just wanted to know if it's just me :( , or if anyone figured out a way to get it to compile.

Try it as root

One of the first things I tried :(

Hmmm....
It would maybe appear you don't have libtool installed. I checked to see if I do, and, yup, I do. I added the help file just for fun :D

But I would check that also, make sure it's installed, and if so you might have to provide the location when running the configure script. ./configure -help might provide a clue.

Good luck

right well firstly this is certainly not a problem with not having libtool, as libtool clearly is running as you can see from the error message, for example:

see, that's not bash failing, it's the wrong program name... it could be a problem within the libtool script in the pacakge, but i jsut tested it and it worked fine for me. you can see in the error message that it's a regex failing by all accoutns, which then screws up teh next line, tryingn to run "-e" as a program too... try just using make instead of gmake.. might help... after that try a slightly older version of the package, those guys release so often, there's so so little difference each version.

Alright, this is interesting:
-If I change into the root of the source directory (i.e /home/shannon/Packages/extracted/gaim-0.59.1/) and then issue ./libtool, the command is executed no problem, however if I change into the directory that gmake was in when it tries to execute libtool (i.e ./sounds) and execute libtool the same way it tries (i.e. ../libtool) then I get this error:

Any Ideas? I guess I could go into make and change '../libtool' to '$Full_Path/libtool'.

Any what is up with the '-e', there is no -e option for libtool?

Try to see if you can find something in the Makefile. Maybe it was a typo somewhere that you could fix (and then if you do, let GAIM know ;) )

I would do what Acid suggested though, go back and get one of the older releases, maybe the one released a month ago :D

Cool

Finallly Success!!!
 

I tried compiling 0.5.9 before I posted this thread, and it didn't compile nicely either, but it was a different error. I figured I'd just focus on getting the latest one to compile then.

I did notice however, that if I did the same thing with 0.59 libtool it worked, so I copied libtool included in 0.59 to 0.59-1 and it worked!!! :D

Thanks for everyones help