Re: More questions about building Gnopernicus

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

Just a couple of follow-ups on your success (mostly so that people
having similar problems will find when they search the archives)...

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:41:13PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> I have /usr/lib/pkgconfig/bonobo-activation-2.0.pc.  So, the logical
> setting for PKG_CONFIG_PATH is "/usr/lib/pkgconfig" so that's what I
> tried.  It worked great!  Thanks a lot.

Hmm. I would have thought pkg-config should have looked there by default
on a normal install (unless you built it yourself to look in /usr/local
or something). If Slackware's standard pkg-config does _not_ look in
/usr/lib/pkgconfig, you should probably report it as a bug (to
Slackware).

> BTW, I tried re-compiling automake 1.4 to be in the same directory as
> automake 1.7 and it trampled all over it!  I ended up reinstalling
> automake 1.7 from the Slackware package and putting automake 1.4 back
> in /usr/local/bin.  Oh well.

That's odd. Anything later than automake-1.4p6 should be parallel
installable. By default, all automakes (1.4p6, 1.5*, 1.6* and later)
will install a binary called automake-<ver> (where <ver> is 1.4, 1.5,
1.6 ro 1.7 as appropriate) and a binary called automake. The latter
binary should never be called by anything, though (things that just run
"automake" should have bugs filed against them). These automake packages
also install a directory in ${prefix}/share/automake-<ver> (with <ver>
as above). So there should be no trampling going on.

Now, it's possible that Slackware is using an earlier automake-1.4
package, but the p6 version has been out for about a year now. So if a
recent automake-1.4 release is not parallel installable, this is again
another bug that should be reported to Slackware, since they have
somehow broken the standard install.

> Now, to try and get Gnopernicus built.  I'll be sure and let you know
> how that goes and am planning on writing up the steps I took to get it
> working when/if I do.

My guess will be that once you have all the pre-requisite GNOME packages
built (at-spi, gnome-mag, gnome-speech) it should all Just Work(tm). The
problems you were experiencing earlier should be the worst of it.

Cheers,
Malcolm

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