i get this error when trying to compile 1.1-beta1 in fedora core 2:

app.cpp:299: error: `StringHandler' is not a class or namespace
app.cpp:299: error: invalid base-class specification
app.cpp: In member function `void App::applySettings(bool)':
app.cpp:385: error: 'class TagLib::ID3v1::Tag' has no member named '
setStringHandler'
make[4]: *** [app.o] Error 1

i compiled taglib-1.2 beforehand and installed it in my home dir. i have an older taglib in /usr, but i edited PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my .bash_profile to look in $HOME before looking in /usr.

Very similaryly I get the following:

app.o(.text+0x22c8): In function `App::applySettings(bool)':
: undefined reference to `TagLib::ID3v1::Tag::setStringHandler(TagLib::ID3v1::StringHandler const*)'
app.o(.gnu.linkonce.r._ZTI18ID3v1StringHandler+0x8): undefined reference to `typeinfo for TagLib::ID3v1::StringHandler'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [amarokapp] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/spyderusa11/amarok-1.1-CVS/amarok/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/spyderusa11/amarok-1.1-CVS/amarok/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/spyderusa11/amarok-1.1-CVS/amarok'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/spyderusa11/amarok-1.1-CVS'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I'm using SuSE 9.1 and the taglib and taglib-devel RPM's that came with it.

Mike

spyderusa11 wrote:

app.o(.text+0x22c8): In function `App::applySettings(bool)':
: undefined reference to `TagLib::ID3v1::Tag::setStringHandler(TagLib::ID3v1::StringHandler const*)'
app.o(.gnu.linkonce.r._ZTI18ID3v1StringHandler+0x8): undefined reference to `typeinfo for TagLib::ID3v1::StringHandler'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [amarokapp] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/spyderusa11/amarok-1.1-CVS/amarok/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/spyderusa11/amarok-1.1-CVS/amarok/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/spyderusa11/amarok-1.1-CVS/amarok'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/spyderusa11/amarok-1.1-CVS'
make: *** [all] Error 2

It is due to a stale version of the TagLib library on your harddisk. You must remove all old copies of TagLib.

[code:1]
find / -name "fileref.h"
[/code:1]

should locate all instances of TagLib. Mind you, you could even have several copies hanging around in different folders. Happened to me too.

Well... there was another version of taglib and I removed it. But I still get the same error. The logical thing to do would probably be get rid of the RPM and compile the source. But kdemultimedia and a few other RPM's depend on it so I'm not sure I wanna go through the hassle. Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike

Ok I left the taglib RPM alone and uninstalled the taglib-devel RPM. Then I compiled taglib from source. I'm sure it's a mess now, but more importantly, it worked. Thanks again for the help.

Mike

that seemed to work for me too

I don get it to work that way, i sure ie removed all old taglib versions, compiled taglib 1.3 but i still get the stringhandler error

rpm ---rebuild-db did the job for me,now i able to install