Problem compiling gaim 0.77
 

I ran configure and it went fine, but when I try to compile, I get lots of error messages, such as;

perl.c:46:20: EXTERN.h: No such file or directory
perl.c:52:18: perl.h: No such file or directory
perl.c:53:18: XSUB.h: No such file or directory
perl.c:74: syntax error before "_"
In file included from perl.c:93:
perl-common.h:8:18: XSUB.h: No such file or directory
perl-common.h:9:20: EXTERN.h: No such file or directory
perl-common.h:10:18: perl.h: No such file or directory

There's a whole load more and I'm not sure what's actually wrong. Can anyone help?

Is perl installed? it looks like the Gaim source can't find perl.h

Yep, I've installed perl. Those files are in: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i486-linux/CORE

Alright then then you run the configure script run it like this to see what libs and header files need to be other written because its not guessing them correctly

/.configure --help |less

this will give you some options you can enable/disable during the compile
just tell the script where perl.h is

It doesn't say what header files and libraries need to be written and I'm not sure which option to use to point it to perl.h. One option is --with-perl-lib=site|vendor|DIR (Specify where to install the Perl libraries for gaim. Default is site.), unless that's it.

Thanks.

i downloaded gaim 0.77 using the tgz file from http://www.linuxpackages.net and installed it using installpkg...it works great. might try that?

Yay, all working now. Thanks.

Problem compiling gaim 0.77
 

Re: Problem compiling gaim 0.77
 

What was the point in that?