Build Failure

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:31:25 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> GiNaC has been failing to build on the build system. The failure appears 
> to happen during the configure stage when it's looking for cln. cln was 
> recently built and released (version 1.1.9), and cln-devel is required 
> for the build. However, the following error is encountered in configure:
> 
> checking for cln-config... /usr/bin/cln-config
> checking for CLN - version >= 1.1.0... no
> *** Could not run CLN test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log 
> for the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means CLN was incorrectly 
> installed
> *** or that you have moved CLN since it was installed. In the latter 
> case, you
> *** may want to edit the cln-config script: /usr/bin/cln-config.
> 
> configure is correctly finding the presence of /usr/bin/cln-config, 
> which is in cln-devel, but for some reason there's a failure. I can't 
> duplicate this on my i386 system. Any ideas on why this might happen? Is 
> there any way to get at the config.log file mentioned in the error message?

$ cln-config --libs
-L/usr/lib -lcln -lgmp

$ rpm -qR cln-devel
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
cln = 1.1.9-2.fc4
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1

Looks like it's missing "Requires: gmp-devel" in cln-devel at least.