[lazarus] Building problems

[Peter Vreman]

At 21:41 29-12-99 , you wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:44:51AM +0100, Marc Weustink wrote:
> > + From: Visage Tech Support [mailto:support at v-share.com]
> >
> > + Hello,
> > + I am having two different problems building fpc, lazarus.
> > + The first is that when i am trying to build the packages i am having
> > problems + with "libgdb" which is not installed on my system.
> > + I know that libgdb is an obsolete library not used any more from gdb.
> > + The results for the build are:
> >
> > + make[1]: Entering directory `/root/src/fpc/packages/gdbint'
> > + ppc386 -Fu../rtl/linux -Fu../units/linux -Fllibgdb/linux 
> -Folibgdb/linux -
> > + Fl/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66 -FE. -di386 symify.pp
> > + /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lgdb: No such file or directory
> >
> > I dont know if the lib is obsolete, it's still distributed, so I suggest to
> > install the latest gtk+-devel (I use gtk+-devel-1.2.6-1)
>
>It's not the gtk-library but the gdb-library which (as far as I know) is
>used to make debugging work in the ide. To work around the missing lib I'd
>suggest to compile the the different packages in the packages directory
>manually.
>
>eg:  cd packages
>      make gtk
>      make api
>      make zlib
>
>If this does'nt work you'll have to go in the package directory directly 
>before
>calling make.
>
>eg: cd packages/gtk
>     make
I'll remove the compile of programs when calling make in the packages dir.


Peter