[CentOS] How is this possible?

[Finnur Örn Guðmundsson]

MHR wrote:
> As an experiment, I am attempting to build a more recent version of
> GNOME than 2.16.0 on CentOS 5.1.  I've tried both garnome and jhbuild,
> and neither one works quite right.  Jhbuild blows out looking for a
> dbus-glib-1 revision >= 0/74 (the release rev is 0.70), so I
> downloaded that and tried to build it.  This results in the following
> error:
>
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
> -Wfloat-equal -Wsign-compare -o .libs/dbus-binding-tool
> dbus-binding-tool-glib.o dbus-glib-tool.o  ./.libs/libdbus-gtool.a
> -L/lib64 ./.libs/libdbus-glib-1.so -ldbus-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
> /usr/lib/libexpat.so -lnsl
> /usr/lib/libexpat.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [dbus-binding-tool] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/mhr/Download/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mhr/Download/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mhr/Download/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mhr/Download/dbus-glib-0.74'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> When I try to use garnome, it eventually runs into exactly the same error.
>
> I've checked /usr/lib/libexpat.so, and this is what I get:
>
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/libexpat.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan  8 13:11 /usr/lib/libexpat.so ->
> ../../lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0
> $ ls -l /lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 133056 Jan  6  2007 /lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0
> $ file /lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0
> /lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386,
> version 1 (SYSV), stripped
>
> When I look at this library with nm, lld and objdump, they all seem to
> be able to read it just fine.  There is also the 64 bit version that
> lives in /ib64 and has a .ink from /usr/lib64, and that also reads
> fine.
>
> What did I miss here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> mhr
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Howdy,

Just a thought, do you have the expat-devel package installed?

Thanks,
Finnur