Re: Can't compile balsa-1.2.3 CVS - Gnome-VFS problem

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.12.18 01:23:04 +0000 Paulo Andre wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> After getting last night's Balsa (1.2.3) from CVS, I haven't been able to

current cvs is post 1.3.0, and you can't get 1.2.3 from cvs cause there isn't
a 1_2_3 tag. *gasp* :) just noticed it. (or is there, and i'm going blind?)
so i'll assume you got cvs HEAD :)


> properly compile it. Actually, I can't even configure it. The `configure' 
> script keeps babbling about Gnome-VFS-devel as you can see...
> 
> # ./configure --disable-nls --prefix=/usr
> 
> <snip..>
> 
> checking whether to Gnome-VFS is available... configure: error: 
> Gnome-VFS(-devel) library is needed to build balsa
> 
what does your 'gnome-config --libs vfs' say ?

> 
> ...after which it exits. I've installed Gnome-VFS from source 
> (gnome-vfs-1.0.3.tar.gz) and exhaustively tried every configuration I could 
> think, still with no results... I think it might be something to do with 
> misplaced libs and/or headers but I've tried many different locations, yet 
> no success achieved.

look at config.log, at the end you'll find the failed gnome-vfs test and how
it failed

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