Re: ORBit compilation problems, again

[Soren Harward <soren cinternet net>]

I followed this exactly and I'm still getting exactly the same
!@$&($!@$*(!)!@#*(&%()&!@$)(&!@$)(!@$ problem.  I'm starting to have GNOME
withdrawl symptoms, having not been able to get it to compile for more
than a week.

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On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Kurt Granroth wrote:

>I had fairly irritating problems compiling all Gnome packages (just curious,
>has ANY developer every tried compiling the Gnome packages from scratch
>lately?  I didn't think so).  I *did* get ORBit to compile a couple of
>days ago, though.
>
>Here's what my notes tell me I had to do:
>
>1) Compile glib and gtk+ and install both
>2) Put 'aclocal -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal -I ../glib' in autogen.sh
>3) Put 'aclocal -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal -I ../../glib' in libIDL/autogen.sh
>
>That did it for me.
>
>When I went to compile libIDL -- not the one in the ORBit module (why are
>there two libIDLs, BTW?) -- I had more problems.  My notes look like so:
>
>1) cd libIDL && cp ../imlib/autogen.sh .
>2) 'aclocal -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal -I ../ORBit'
>
>I remember it being more of a pain than that, though, so I probably did
>something else that I forgot to write down.
>
>BTW, the errors you have in the libIDL dir seem to indicate that the
>acinclude.m4 file is either corrupt or missing.  I'd delete it if it is
>there and do a 'cvs update'
>