[Slackbuilds-users] libcap build fails

[Robby Workman]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 00:19:32 +0200 (CEST)
"Menno E. Duursma" <druiloor at zonnet.nl> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Robby Workman wrote:
> 
> > Robert W. Wendel wrote:
> >>   I had a problem with libcap 2.11 for 12.1 not compiling.
> >>   As strang as it may seem,  I compiled/installed libcap 1.97 for
> >> 12.0 . After doing that, then libcap 2.11 for 12.1 compiled
> >> successfully.  Removed 1.97 and installed 2.11.  Tested the
> >> library and 2.11 works ok.
> >
> >
> > Interesting...  Surely the newer libcap doesn't depend on itself
> > already being installed in order to build.
> 
> Well it certainly seems that way to me atm. I don't really have time
> to look into this much now though.
> 
> > Perhaps something went wrong in the build...  :/
> 
> Hmn, i _can_ reproduce this here, probably include path issue.
> (Possibly could be some incompatibility between header and kernel
> aswell).
> 
> Suggestions welcome.


It's a simple fix - it is indeed an include path problem.
I just sent a patch to the maintainer and pushed it into the 
queue for our next update.

-RW
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