problem with compile powermated [solved]

[imwithstupid]

recently i've been trying to compile several programs from source and i've been getting errors when i run the config scripts. They usually say something like cannot find X, where X is actually installed (including its libraries) and it properly in use by other programs.

 

So far these are the programs and the libraries/components they can't find:

powermated: can't find alsa...right now i'm listening to xmms with alsa so its there.

http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=23143

checking for snd_mixer_open in -lasound... no
configure: error: You must have ALSA Installed

 

xmms-plugin for powermate

checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error: *** GLIB >= 1.2.0 not installed - please ins
tall first ***

 

TORCS:

checking for X... no
checking for GL/glut.h... no
configure: error: Can't find GL/glut.h. Please check config.log and if you can't solve the problem send the file to eric.espie@free.fr with the subject "torcs compilation problem"

 

These are not the only programs i have this problem with. Does anyone have any ideas or see any pattern forming?

 

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

Edited February 26, 2005 by imwithstupid

[arctic]

hmm... sounds weird.

run "updatedb" as root in a terminal. maybe that fixes the stuff. :unsure:

[imwithstupid]

nope...i get the same errors

[arctic]

have you tried reinstalling the packages that do give you unnessessary error messages with a force command already? and are you sure that you have e.g. the glib package installed? it looks as if it really ain't there imho.

[imwithstupid]

I was completely wrong. Boy do i feel foolish right now. I wasn't thinking right and forgot to look for the devel packages. Oh well.

 

The new problem is that powermated won't compile (everything else works just fine). It spits out this error:

PMDaemon.cpp: In member function `bool PMDaemon::performAction(PMDActionType,

int, int*, const char*)':

PMDaemon.cpp:744: internal compiler error: in optimize_mode_switching, at

lcm.c:1225

Please submit a full bug report,

with preprocessed source if appropriate.

See <URL:https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/> for instructions.

make[2]: *** [PMDaemon.o] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/flo/Desktop/powermated-0.3.2/powermated'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/flo/Desktop/powermated-0.3.2'

make: *** [all] Error 2

 

I have contacted the developer and he said to send him the CFLAGS i was using (-g -O2) and the version of gcc i have installed (3.5) Both of us scoured google to find that there is a possible bug in the mandrake 10.1 compile of gcc.

 

How should I go about fixing this?

 

 

(also mods, should this be a new post?)

Edited February 25, 2005 by imwithstupid

[spinynorman]

(also mods, should this be a new post?)

No, you're ok. :)

[imwithstupid]

Problem pretty much solved!

 

I removed all gcc versions on my computer. Then i reinstalled and tried each one. Things only seemed to compile with 3.4 for some reason. However, ver 0.3.2 of powermated wouldn't compile the xmms portion for some reason. So I compiled 0.3.1 which worked quite well with the exception of not being able to use the beep library stuff to have the led pulse to the music (luckily i don't want to do that anyways)

 

I would also like to say that the developer of this software was extremely helpful, friendly, and knowledgable. He is exactly what we love about the open source community.