Errors building Ghex in gnome-hacker-tools

[Sydney Weidman <weidmans mts net>]

I'm having two rather strange problems with building gnome-hacker-tools.

One is that when I try to do a make install from inside the
gnome-hacker-tools directory, the build fails on a ghex patch like so:

  ==> Building gnome/ghex as a dependency
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/syd/working/garnome-0.20.0/gnome/ghex'
[===== NOW BUILDING:    ghex-2.2.0      =====]
         [fetch] complete for ghex.
         [checksum] complete for ghex.
         [extract] complete for ghex.
  ==> Applying patch download/desktop-fix.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff --speed-large-files --minimal -Nru
tmp/ghex-1.99.90/ghex.desktop.in work/ghex-1.99.90/ghex.desktop.in
|--- tmp/ghex-1.99.90/ghex.desktop.in   2002-10-02 04:26:01.000000000 +1000
|+++ work/ghex-1.99.90/ghex.desktop.in  2002-10-28 16:51:13.000000000 +1100
--------------------------
File to patch:

at which point i manually enter:
/home/syd/working/garnome-0.20.0/gnome/ghex/work/ghex-2.2.0/ghex.desktop.in

and the build then continues:


patching file
/home/syd/working/garnome-0.20.0/gnome/ghex/work/ghex-2.2.0/ghex.desktop.in
Hunk #1 FAILED at 6.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
/home/syd/working/garnome-0.20.0/gnome/ghex/work/ghex-2.2.0/ghex.desktop.in.rej
make[1]: *** [normal-patch-desktop-fix.diff] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/syd/working/garnome-0.20.0/gnome/ghex'
make: *** [dep-../../gnome/ghex] Error 2


So i'm kind of stumped about how to either get the patch to work or to
modify the build so it skips the patch, or perhaps skips ghex
altogether. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

The second problem is that if i try to configure and build ghex from
within the gnome/ghex directory, i get a very mysterious error:

libtool: link: cannot find the library
`/home/weidmans/garnome/lib/libgconf-2.la'
make[3]: *** [ghex2] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/syd/working/garnome-0.20.0/gnome/ghex/work/ghex-2.2.0/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/syd/working/garnome-0.20.0/gnome/ghex/work/ghex-2.2.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/syd/working/garnome-0.20.0/gnome/ghex/work/ghex-2.2.0'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

Why is libtool looking in the directory of user weidmans when i am
building garnome as syd? I have done previous garnome builds as user
weidmans, but i can't see how that might cause this error. I have no
idea how to fix this, so again, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards, and thanks for all your hard work,
Syd.