Re: Dependency problems

[Paulo Andre' <l16083 alunos uevora pt>]

Hi Keith,

On 2002.01.27 02:49 Keith wrote:

> <----------------------------------------------
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for working aclocal... missing
> checking for working autoconf... missing
> checking for working automake... missing
> checking for working autoheader... missing
> checking for working makeinfo... found
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of 
> Makefiles... no
> checking for gnome-config... no
> checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
> ---------------------------------------------->
> 
> I don't know how to find out whether I have the programs and versions 
> listed in INSTALL file (yes, I know, cluesless newbie) other than, if 
> the Debian package is of the same name, checking dselect, or running 
> <name> --version if it's a program.

First of all, two things which are a) it's alright to be a newbie and 
b) be prepared for GNOME dependency hell.

This said, it seems to me you are either missing gnome-libs on your 
system or they are misplaced. The configure script is looking for 
/usr/local/lib/gnome-config but it has no luck. If you do have 
gnome-config (it gets installed via gnome-libs) on your system, you can 
try to symlink it like 'ln -s /path/to/your/gnome-config 
/usr/local/bin/gnome-config'. Alternatively and probably more suited, 
seeing you are trying to build balsa from source in the first place, 
get 'gnome-libs' tarball from ftp.gnome.org, and compile those. And 
this is where you prolly will go thru dependency hell... at least I 
did. www.gnome.org has some good explanations about the dependencies 
and the way to install the different gnome-related libs/apps.

If you don't want to go this way, then debian's distupgrade might just 
be the way to go.
  	Paulo Andre'

PS - I'm a newbie too, don't give me much credit :>