Re: GNUstep Startup fails to build on Fedora Core 5

[Adam Fedor]

On 2006-03-21 07:23:50 -0700 Dylan Smith <dyls@alioth.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Startup fails to build - so far, 2 breaks:
> 1. It doesn't detect the X11 development environment in 'configure' 
> at the
> top level. I'm not particularly knowledgable about GNU autoconf or
> makefiles but it looks like it's looking for static libraries (which 
> no
> longer exist on FC5). I suspect it will build just fine without the 
> static
> libraries.

I don't see this in the log files. Dod you run it again and it worked 
or what?

> 2. Failure during the build of GNUstep GUI:
> Linking service GSspell ...
> Creating GSspell.service/Resources...
> Creating GSspell.service/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist...
> trampoline: cannot make memory executable
> /bin/sh: line 1:  6258 Aborted
> ././shared_obj/make_services --test
> GSspell.service/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist

This could be a problem with stricter security policies affecting how 
the ffcall library sets up function calls. Do you some non-standard 
security policy in place (pam, or whatever?). I haven't really seen it 
before on Fedora. Maybe the ffi library works on Fedora?