Re: GNOME install Order

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight mindspring com>]

Raja R Harinath wrote:
> > Hehe, like I said, "unless something has ... changed".  :-)  I was not
> > aware that libgtop now uses libgnomesupport in any form, and am almost
> > certain that it has not always been that was (and was not that way the
> > last time I compiled:).
> 
> Hmm...  That may be if the last time you compiled libgtop was a more
> than an year ago.  Here's a ChangeLog entry of interest:
> 
>   1998-06-08  Martin Baulig  <martin@home-of-linux.org>
> 
>         * support: Added again.
> 
>         * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Added `support' again.
> 
>         * configure.in: First, we check for gnome. If it is not
>         found, we run GNOME_SUPPORT_CHECKS; otherwise use
>         `$GNOME_LIBDIR -lgnomesupport'.
> 
> Not much has changed in this regard since, unless bitrot set in.
> 
> However, you are right that the `libgtop' library itself doesn't
> appear to require `libgnomesupport'.  Only the auxiliary programs
> (like the libgtop_daemon, which should be unused, anyway, on Linux)
> and example code need it.

Ok.  Thanks for the clarification.  :-)  I guess it's more like, I
haven't really looked at the source since then, as I'm sure that the
last compile I did was in mid-January of THIS year.

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