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Reputation: 11

Error installing glib

I am trying to install the glib-2.38.0 and upon executing the MAKE file and getting the following error:

make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/glib-2.38.0/glib/update-pcre'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/glib-2.38.0/glib/update-pcre'
Making install in .
make[4]: Entering directory `/root/glib-2.38.0/glib'
  CCLD     libglib-2.0.la
libtool: link: `glib_probes.lo' is not a valid libtool object
make[4]: *** [libglib-2.0.la] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/glib-2.38.0/glib'
make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/glib-2.38.0/glib'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/glib-2.38.0/glib'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/glib-2.38.0'
make: *** [install] Error 2

How can I troubleshoot this? How can I overcome this issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1686

Answers (2)

Richard Law
Richard Law

Reputation: 21

After hitting this same error on Solaris 10 01/13 and not needing dtrace support, I solved this in configure by adding --disable-dtrace.

Upvotes: 2

Jay F Shachter
Jay F Shachter

Reputation: 11

I had the exact same problem, and located your posting after giving the error message to a search engine. Alas, no one had answered you, so I had no choice but to troubleshoot the problem myself.

In my case, the problem was an old version of dtrace. I updated the package containing /usr/bin/dtrace (which, in my case, was systemtap-sdt-devel) and then dtrace created a proper glib_probes.lo file.

Having solved the problem for myself, it then became my duty to tell you how I had done so, and answer your unanswered question. This I have now done.

Upvotes: 1

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