Núcleo doesn't compile (Núcleo now compiled, but Metisse doesn't compile)
 

I wanted to try installing the Metisse window manager, and it depends on Nucleo.

I got Nucleo from the AUR, but it fails to compile:

What should I do?

Tux - Linux - Google http://www.google.com/linux
Keyword = Nucleo

The first hit :
""Arch Linux Forums / [solved] error makepkg (make aborts) nucleo ...""
> > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46084

I guess, that [solved] means, it's not impossible to do.
QUOTE , post # 5
" found the new patches in aur from 6xx -
makepkg now works fine with nucleo-cvs and metisse-cvs "
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Post # 1 : 'libpng-1.4.x' ( libpng14) could be a problem.?
No Linux OS (except Arch) uses libpng14, they all use libpng12,
so the most software is probably written with libpng12 in mind.
'libpng12' is available for Arch, ref. a recent LQ thread.

Post # 3 : Looks like a complete misfit between the build script
and the software.

If you can provide links for the software and the patches,
I may have have a chance to look at it.
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I have installed libpng12 from the AUR before, because some software I use needs libpng12. So that's not a problem.

What does that mean?

Using libpng12 for compiling :
1) /usr/bin/libpng-config : this link must point to libpng12-config
2) /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng.pc : link must point to libpng12.pc
3) /usr/lib/libpng.so : link must point to libpng12.so.0.XX.0


This is a link, an URL to nucleo-0.7.6
http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/download/nucleo/
http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/downloa...-0.7.6.tar.bz2

You still miss out to show, where you got nucleo-cvs
and the patches. URL's please.

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Is there a way around modifying those files directly?

If not, is ot OK to but them back to the way they were originally after successfully compiling Núcleo?

And it's funny what you said about only Arch using libpng14, I thought that in a previous thread someone told me that libpng12 is ancient and few things use it anymore.

Of course, non of these files are used at run time.
The run time library is e.g. /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 .

All the Linux OS in testing, I found, last time I checked it :
Debian Sid, Fedora 13, Fedora 14, use e.g. libpng-1.2.43 .
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I don't seem to have a file called /usr/bin/libpng12-config.

cd nucleo-0.7.6/ && ./configure
checking for libpng using pkg-config... yes

'nucleo' may not use the /usr/bin/libpng12-config,
but uses pkg-config instead.
Suggest : try building it, and see, what happens.
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I don't understand.

My way of testing things :
cd nucleo-0.7.6/
./configure --prefix=/home/knudfl/_nucleo-result/
&& make && make install
ls _nucleo-result/lib/
libNucleo.la* libNucleo.so@ libNucleo.so.0@
libNucleo.so.0.0.0* nucleo/ pkgconfig/
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etc. etc.
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Does sprintf exist on your system?

'nucleo-0.7.3' is buggy ( or too old ) and will display
the error : " ‘sprintf’ was not declared .."
on a modern Linux OS. This old version may require
an older version of gettext.

'nucleo-0.7.6' : No problems , no errors.
So why did you change away from the stable version ? ?

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