[Xastir] Compiling version 1.8.5

[Barrie McConnell]

On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:35:27 pm Tom Russo wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:19:17PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the <bmcconnell at columbus.rr.com> flavor, containing:
> > I am trying to build 1.8.5 but I am getting errors. I am wondering what
> > libraries I am missing etc.
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld: rtree/librtree.a(split_l.o)(.text+0x275): unresolvable
> > R_386_32 relocation against symbol `CoverSplit'
> > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Unfortunately, it will be extraordinarily difficult for me (as the person
> nominally responsible for the rtree library in xastir) to debug this, as it
> appears to be peculiar to Fedora Core 6, which I do not use and have no
> access to.
>
> In googling that error message, I only see a few references to it in any
> web sites, and they're all about the same issue involving ncurses (which
> is not the problem here) --- but it does imply that the message points to
> some sort of clash with a system definition that is confusing the
> issue when CoverSplit is defined.
>
> Please try grepping /usr/include/* for the string "Rect" --- that is what
> CoverSplit is defined as, and if there's something in the FC6 system
> that is conflicting with that it might explain things.  I doubt there's
> a conflicting "CoverSplit" but if you don't find a "Rect" then please try
> grepping for "CoverSplit" too.
>
> If that's the case, it might be possible to get around the problem by
> introducing a unique prefix to some of the rtree library's definitions to
> get around the namespace pollution.  While this appears to be a problem
> only on FC6 right now, it might become a problem on other distributions
> in the future.

Tom here is what I got:
gif_lib.h:void DrawRectangle(SavedImage * Image,
k3blistview.h:  virtual void paintEmptyArea( QPainter*, const QRect& rect );
I got nothing on CoverSplit.

Barrie