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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Howdy, Just a thought, do you have the expat-devel package installed? Thanks, Finnur