Installing libmime

[Dotan Cohen]

On 08/05/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/05/07, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > > > I need to install libmime 0.5 from the tarball to install the latest
> > > > Synce. It's not making, can somebody please point out to me where the
> > > > error is so that I may correct it? Thanks.
> > >
> > > > /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -Wall -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -o
> > > > test test.o -L. libmimedir.la
> > > > libtool: link: cannot find the library `'
> > > > make: *** [test] Error 1
>
> > > What are the contents of "libmimedir.la"?
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, here it is:
>
> That's fine. So I went an tried to reproduce. It builds fine here with FC-6:
>
> $ ./configure
> [...]
> $ make
> [...]
> ar cru .libs/libmimedir.a  dirlex.o dirsynt.o parse.o get.o dup.o
> free.o memmem.o add.o count.o del.o
> ranlib .libs/libmimedir.a
> creating libmimedir.la
> (cd .libs && rm -f libmimedir.la && ln -s ../libmimedir.la libmimedir.la)
> gcc -Wall -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o test.o -c test.c
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -Wall -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -o
> test test.o -L. libmimedir.la
> gcc -Wall -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o .libs/test test.o
> -L/tmp/libmimedir-0.5 ./.libs/libmimedir.so -Wl,--rpath
> -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> creating test
>
>
> I can only reproduce it if I insert a non-existant inter-library
> dependency into the
>
>   dependency_libs=''
>
> definition in the libtool archive or mess with $deplib. You could
> debug the ./libtool script, where the error message is in a single
> place. :-)
>

Thanks, Michael. I think that we are on two different levels here. I'm
not a unix sysadmin nor a CS major, rather, simply an engineering
student who needs to sync a Dell Axim with Kontact. Please excuse the
ignorance, and know that I am willing to learn, but I really don't
know what would be the next step in getting libmime-0.5 installed, as
Synce depends on it.

Dotan Cohen

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