xfmedia-remote-plugin fails to compile

JoeHill joehill at teksavvy.com
Fri Sep 7 15:06:04 CEST 2007


Omair Eshkenazi left a post-it on the fridge:

> Quoting JoeHill <joehill at teksavvy.com>:
> 
> > xfmedia_remote_plugin-xfmedia-remote.o: In function   
> > `xfmedia_remote_disconnect':
> > /home/joehill/Download/desktop/xfmedia-remote-plugin-0.2.1/panel-plugin/xfmedia-remote.c:244:
> > undefined reference to `dbus_connection_disconnect'
> > xfmedia_remote_plugin-xfmedia-remote.o: In function
> > `_get_dbus_connection':  
> 
> Wasn't this reported at the beginning of the week? Where are the XF-people?

Oops! Yes, you are correct, I should have read the whole thread.
 
> In my experience, that kind of error occures when there's a problem  
> with the linking of a dynamic library -- in this case Dbus.
> 
> Try and look if your Dbus libraries are
> i) in /lib - maybe try copying them to /usr/lib and see if they link ok
> ii) the static and dynamic libraries are not in the same directory (I  
> had this once...), or maybe you're even missing the static library.
> 
> (there's a chance of a version problem with Dbus, but it's not likely,  
> as then the error would have occured during the compiling, not linking)

I'll check this, thanks. This is the only problem I've had with building
anything in quite awhile, including a few things that use dbus, but you never
know. 

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JoeHill
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