[Slackbuilds-users] Problem with libsigc++-2.2.9-i486-1_SBo.tgz

[JK Wood]

On Oct 28, 2011 4:47 PM, "B Watson" <yalhcru at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/28/11, Graham Lawrence <gl00637 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > root at a:/usr/pkgs# updatedb
> > root at a:/usr/pkgs# locate libsigc++-2*
> > /usr/pkgs/libsigc++-2.2.9-i486-1_SBo.tgz
>
> This doesn't do what you expect. On UNIX and its kin, the shell does
> wildcard expansion before running commands. This means the * in your
> command was never "seen" by the locate command (instead, the shell
> expanded it to "libsigc++-2.2.9-i486-1_SBo.tgz", and your command ran as
> "locate libsigc++-2.2.9-i486-1_SBo.tgz"). So it only found the package
> file (you were probably trying to locate the files installed by the
> package, not the actual package file itself...)
>
> One way to check whether libsigc++ is installed:
>
> $ ls /usr/lib/libsigc*.so
> /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so
>
> Another way:
>
> $ pkg-config --list-all|grep -i sigc
> sigc++-2.0                  libsigc++ - Typesafe signal and callback
> system for C++
>
> (The "pkg-config" command, confusingly, has nothing to do with the
> slackware packaging system)
>
> When your nzbget ./configure script fails, look for a file called
> "config.log", usually found in the same directory as the configure
> script. This will have the details (*lots* of details) on what the
> configure script did and why it failed. Try searching for sigc++ in that
> file (with "less", or with a text editor).
>
> Another thing that happens fairly often with configure scripts: if
> the script fails because some library was missing, and you install the
> library and re-run the script in-place, it may fail again even though
> it shouldn't... because configure scripts can cache their results. Try
> completely deleting the nzbget-0.7.0 directory, untar it again, and
> start over.
>
> I just built nzbget-0.7.0 on 64-bit slackware 13.37 using the libsigc++
> and libpar2 from slackbuilds.org, and it built just fine. No way to test
> that it runs correctly though (I have no access to any nntp servers).
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You can also view the package manifest:

$ less /var/log/packages/libsigc*

--JK
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