[Fink-users] removing fink and compiling xemacs...

[Bernard Knaepen]

Title: removing fink and compiling xemacs...

Hi,

I decided to clean my drive and removed the fink installation (removed the /sw directory). I now want  to install xemacs 21.5.4 (current beta version at xemacs.org).

My problem is that the configure script does not complete and stop with the following message: (last lines from screen output)

checking for module support
checking for dlfcn.h... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
checking for dld_init in -ldld... no
    No module support.

*** PANIC *** The C compiler can no longer build working executables.
*** PANIC *** Please examine the tail of config.log for runtime errors.
*** PANIC *** The most likely reason for this problem is that configure
*** PANIC *** links with shared libraries, but those libraries cannot be
*** PANIC *** found at run time.
*** PANIC ***
*** PANIC *** On a Linux system, edit /etc/ld.so.conf and re-run ldconfig.
*** PANIC *** On other systems, try telling configure where to find the
*** PANIC *** shared libraries using the --site-runtime-libraries option
*** PANIC ***
*** PANIC *** Another way to shoot yourself in the foot is to specify
*** PANIC *** --with-FEATURE when FEATURE is not actually installed

*** PANIC *** on your system.  Don't do that.

The problem seems to have something to do with fink: in the config.log file the compiler looks for libraries in /sw and does not find them. I have all libraries now installed in /usr/local/lib and I obtained them from osxgnu. A friend has the same setup and can compile xemacs just fine; the only difference: he never installed fink in the past. So my question is, has fink changed a setup file so that the compiler and linker aren't able to find libraries in usr/local/lib? I have tried to supply explicit path to the configure script but with no success.

For information, the end of the config.log file is copied below. I have posted the full config.log file and configure output on my web site:

http://users.skynet.be/fa030129/config.log

http://users.skynet.be/fa030129/configure.output

thanks for any reply,

Bernard.

ps: please don't suggest to reinstall fink to get xemacs...before that I want to educate myself and understand what's going on :-)

char shl_load();

int main() {
shl_load()
; return 0; }
configure:14562: checking for dld_init in -ldld
configure:14578: gcc -o conftest   -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith       -I/usr/X11R6/include        -L/usr/X11R6/lib  conftest.c   -ldld   -ltiff -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lXpm -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11   -lSM -lICE -lncurses     1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -ldld
configure: failed program was:
#line 14567 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
char dld_init();

int main() {
dld_init()
; return 0; }
configure:15273: gcc -o conftest   -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith       -I/usr/X11R6/include        -L/usr/X11R6/lib  conftest.c    -ltiff -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lXpm -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11   -lSM -lICE -lncurses     1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: warning can't open dynamic library: /sw/lib/libjpeg.62.dylib (checking for undefined symbols may be affected) (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
/usr/bin/ld: warning can't open dynamic library: /sw/lib/libz.1.dylib (checking for undefined symbols may be affected) (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
dyld: ./conftest can't open library: /sw/lib/libtiff.3.dylib  (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
configure: failed program was:
#line 15269 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
int main(int c,char *v[]){return 0;}