On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:51:29PM -0800, fiorejp@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm having trouble building ethereal v 0.8.14 on
> solaris 7 on intel.
>
> The error that I keep getting is:
> libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed
I didn't have that problem with Ethereal 0.8.15; however, I
1) don't have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set
and
2) modified the "glib-config" and "gtk-config" scripts so that
they add a "-R" flag as well as a "-L" flag (so that if GLib
and GTK+ are installed under "/usr/local", programs linked
with them will automatically look in "/usr/local/lib" for
shared libraries, and thus don't require you to have
LD_LIBRARY_PATH in order to run them).
One or both of these may make the difference. If you have sufficient
privileges on the machine on which you're building Ethereal to do steps
2 and 3, try:
1) getting rid of the 0.8.14 tree you have, and re-downloading
it (to make sure you get rid of any state information the
configuration or build process left around);
2) changing all lines in "glib-config" that have "-L" flags in
them (such as "-L${exec_prefix}/lib") to have, right after
the "-L" flag, a "-R" flag with the same directory (such as
"-R${exec_prefix}/lib");
3) doing the same with "gtk-config" (note that the "-L" flag
above is an example - "glib-config" and "gtk-config" may have
other "-L" flags in addition to that one);
4) unsetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your environment if it's set;
5) re-doing the "configure" and "make" process.
