On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Christian Aperghis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andy Dougherty a écrit :
>
>
>
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Christian Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > I have exactly the same problem under a Debian system.
> > > Configure works properly but make ends with the same message error :
> > >
> > > pbc_to_exe.o: In function `main':
> > > pbc_to_exe.c:(.text+0x64): undefined reference to
> > > `Parrot_set_executable_name'
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > linking failed
> > > current instr.: 'link_file' pc 769 (pbc_to_exe.pir:369)
> > > called from Sub 'main' pc 124 (pbc_to_exe.pir:32)
> > > make: *** [pbc_to_exe] Error 1
> > >
> > >
> >
> > My guess is the same as it was in the original problem report -- do you
> have a previously installed libparrot somewhere (perhaps in /usr/local/lib?)
> > I have not yet heard back from the original poster whether this is the
> source of the problem, but it seems a reasonable possibility to me.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Note that this problem does not appear on a Centos or a MacOsX System.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > My guess is that those systems do not have a previously installed
> libparrot somewhere where the linker can find it.
> >
> >
> >
>
> If what you are suggesting is right, depending of the system we are working
> on we cannot perform an upgrade of parrot without removing the former
> installation.
>
this is correct, until we start versioning our libparrot libraries,
which is a platform-dependent task we haven't attacked yet. for
example: libparrot.so.0.6.0-devel
~jerry
