[Kaffe] problem with bad libgif link in CVS code

[Godmar Back]

 Make sure you remove config.cache before configuring.

	- Godmar

> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I had a big problem with kaffe out of todays CVS. I was running on a
> solaris sparc 5.6 system when I ran into a problem with libgif. The
> configure script seemed to think libgif worked and it linked Kaffe
> to it, but when I ran the code it crashed.
> 
> 
> /tmp/mo/install_kaffe/bin/javac
> ld.so.1: /tmp/mo/install_kaffe/libexec/Kaffe: fatal: libgif.so.3: open failed: No such file or directory
> Killed
> 
> mo(/tmp/mo/tcljava1.1b1/unix/Kaffe)% ldd /tmp/mo/install_kaffe/libexec/Kaffe
>         libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
>         libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
>         libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
>         libgif.so.3 =>   (file not found)
>         libSM.so.6.0 =>  /soft/X11R6.3/lib/libSM.so.6.0
>         libICE.so.6.3 =>         /soft/X11R6.3/lib/libICE.so.6.3
>         libX11.so.6.1 =>         /soft/X11R6.3/lib/libX11.so.6.1
>         libkaffevm-1.0b3.so =>   /tmp/mo/install_kaffe/lib/libkaffevm-1.0b3.so
>         libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
>         libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
>         libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
> 
> 
> 
> (from configure output)
> checking for DGifOpenFileHandle in -lgif... (cached) yes
> checking for gif_lib.h... (cached) yes
> 
> (from config.log)
> configure:4455: checking for DGifOpenFileHandle in -lgif
> configure:4474: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes   conftest.c -lgif    1>&5
> configure:4467: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> configure:4469: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> 
> 
> 
> char DGifOpenFileHandle();
> 
> int main() {
>   DGifOpenFileHandle();
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> 
> % gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes   conftest.c -lgif    1>&5
> conftest.c:1: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> conftest.c:3: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> 
> % ./conftest 
> ld.so.1: ./conftest: fatal: libgif.so.3: open failed: No such file or directory
> Killed
> 
> % ldd conftest
>         libgif.so.3 =>   (file not found)
>         libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
>         libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
> 
> 
> 
> I could not find libgif on my system and I had no clue how to fix the
> configure.in script so I just tossed a hack into configure so that the
> contest compile failed. After installing I now had no link to libgif.
> 
> ..
> 
> checking for DGifOpenFileHandle in -lgif... no
> 
> ..
> 
> mo(/tmp/mo/install_kaffe/libexec)% ldd Kaffe 
>         libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
>         libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
>         libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
>         libSM.so.6.0 =>  /soft/X11R6.3/lib/libSM.so.6.0
>         libICE.so.6.3 =>         /soft/X11R6.3/lib/libICE.so.6.3
>         libX11.so.6.1 =>         /soft/X11R6.3/lib/libX11.so.6.1
>         libkaffevm-1.0b3.so =>   /tmp/mo/install_kaffe/lib/libkaffevm-1.0b3.so
>         libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
>         libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
>         libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
> 
> 
> 
> That worked for me but it seems like the configure script should be
> able to figure out that no libgif exists on my system.
> 
> 
> I hope that helps
> mo dejong
> dejong at cs.umn.edu
> 
>