Re: gnome-libs compile probs

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Lars Torben Wilson <torben@coastnet.com> writes:
> Sorry if this is in the list archives--they aren't searchable and
> Soren's (excellent) page doesn't mention this.
> 
> What sort of thing would cause the following, given that gnome cvs has 
> compiled pretty well for me for the past couple of months or so, and
> suddenly asks for a directory that's not anywhere on my system? :)
> 
> make all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/fletcher/gnome/gnome-libs'
> Making all in po
> make[2]: Entering directory `/fletcher/gnome/gnome-libs/po'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../libvfs/extfs.c', needed by `gnome-libs.pot'.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/fletcher/gnome/gnome-libs/po'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/fletcher/gnome/gnome-libs'
> 
> I did find the requested file in the mc sources, so I could probably
> hack together a passable libvfs dir w/symlinks, but is there a better
> solution?

	$ cd /path/to/gnome-libs
	$ rm -fr libvfs # if you by chance did a mkdir or ln -s
	$ cd ..
	$ cvs get gnome-libs

- Hari
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