Re: Compile errors (was Re: Accessibility of Gnome panel / How toend session via keyboard)

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi.  I know that the Mandrake devel and source packages come with the
Delux/Power pack eddition. I know they also offer them in cvs.
I don't believe they have an iso cd of the sources for download, and I know
the source doesn't come with the standard eddition you buy only the $70 and
above version.



----- Original Message -----
From: John Zitterkopf <zitt mailist router cdmaster32 com>
To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Cc: <malcolm commsecure com au>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: Compile errors (was Re: Accessibility of Gnome panel / How
toend session via keyboard)


> >> > What exact steps did you go through to get here? The information I am
> >>
> >> 1) Downloaded the source tar balls from
> >>
>
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.2/2.2.0/sources/gnome-panel-2.2.0.1
.tar.gz
> >> 2) Untarred the source.
> >> 3) hacked around to get the .configure to work.
> >> a) IE installed a couple of packages that were missing
> >> b) Had to manually create dummy .pc files because for some reason my
> distro didn't have the pc files. (maybe this is the cause?)
>
> >This is certainly a bit suspect -- mostly because there is no way for
> >you to really know what should go into the pkg-config files. The .pc
> >files should come with the *-devel.rpm files for each of the packages
> >concerned. If you don't have a particular .pc file, then you are missing
> >a package. Mandrake is very good about packaging the right files, so you
> >should probably undo this step and try to find the right packages.
>
> That's just it... With Mandrake Linux 9.1; they didn't include -devel RPMs
> or Source RPMs on the three ISOs I downloaded.
> I'm probably missing something; but I looked on all three CDs and couldn't
> find anything that looked like it had the sources on it. Which is
> surprising; because I'm sure Mandrake is required to distribute the
sources
> as part of the CD per GPL licensing. I figure it's just a simple; "the
> sources are here" pointer.
>
> I spent 2 frustrating days trying to locate the source; before I gave up
and
> downloaded the source from gnome.org. I searched various RPMs... tried
doing
> google searches for a how-to newbie type guide to compiling gnome from
> mandrake cds... but came up empty.
>
> >If you can remember which files you needed to create, we can probably
> >work out what packages you need.
>
> Almost all of them. Here's a list of *.pc files I manually created:
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          184 Jul  2 07:34 libbonoboui-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          178 Jul  2 07:32 libglade-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          197 Jul  2 07:30
> gnome-vfs-module-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          183 Jul  2 07:29 gnome-vfs-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          190 Jul  2 07:27
gnome-desktop-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          178 Jul  2 07:25 libwnck-1.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          182 Jul  2 07:23 libgnomeui-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          180 Jul  2 07:21 libgnome-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          173 Jul  2 07:16 gtk+-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          216 Jul  2 07:13 gdk-pixbuf-2.0.pc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          249 Jul  2 06:57 ORBit-2.0.pc
>
> >> 4) ./configure ran with no errors.
> >> 5) did a make.
> >>
> >> > after is things like what source files are you using for gnome-panel
> >> > (tarballs? If so, what release number? CVS version?). Do you have the
> >> > rest of GNOME compiled from source, or are you using your
> >> > distribution's
> >> > installation? What distribution are you using?
> >>
> >> I haven't tried compiling the rest of the source... just gnome panel
> source.
> >>
> >> I tried downloading the distributions source with the same results.
> >>
> >> Mandrake Linux 9.1 is my distribution of choice.
> >
> >Generally a very safe choice for building GNOME stuff. Mandrake's GNOME
> >maintainer (Frederic Crozat) is very knowledgeable.
>
> For whatever reason; this version of MLinux9.1 is not as friendly as past
> versions... at least I haven't been able to locate the sources like I
> expected I would be able to do.
> I guess in the past; I've just downloaded the files from the internet
(like
> postfix, bind9, ect) and compiled them with no issues. Kernel compiling
also
> came easy for me. But Gnome seems to be more difficult or maybe I'm just
> missing something simple. It's probably just "user error".
>
> John
>
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