[geeks] sylpheed compile problem on Solaris

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> I've been trying to get Sylpheed (not sylpheed-claws) to compile on my
> Blade 100 running Solaris 9, and have gotten it a little bit further
> each time something fails.  However this error:

I should try Sylpheed.  I keep hearing all sorts of nice things about it.

> ld: fatal: file gtkshruler.o: wrong ELF machine type: EM_386

This error means that one of the object files is compiled against an x86
CPU.  Since I doubt you have an x86 cross-compiler on your system, you
probably didn't actually compile this file (the timestamp should confirm
that).  If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that this file is missing from
the "clean" rule of the makefile, so it was left behind when the
maintainer did "make clean" prior to tarring up the distribution.

If this is the case, simply deleting it should cause it to get rebuilt for
your SPARC.

> ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to sylpheed

This is the linker throwing up its hands and taking a smoke break.


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Jonathan Patschke
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