Re: problem with self-built-rpm's

[Mark Hankins <mhankins cs pdx edu>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Richard Brunner wrote:
> I've built rpm's from the latest tarballs for my SuSE 6.0 System. Now I
> have two problems, one with the panel and one with the control-center:
> 
> panel:
> 
> I can't add any applets, I don't know why, but if I click on an applet
> (in the menu) nothing happens. To drag a menu-entry from the
> "Start-menu" to the panel doesn't work too.
> 
> control-center:
> 
> To start the control-center is not the problem, but if I click, for
> instance, on "background" it says me that is unable to reach the
> control-center:
> 
> **WARNING** Unable to reach the control-center.
> Exiting...

One thing that I have noticed about some of the .spec's that come with the
gnome tarballs, is that they don't always include all of the files that the
package would install.  Compile the package and install into an empty
hierarchy of directories.  Then note files and directories everything went
into and compare that to what the .spec has.  

> P.S.: I've installed gnome-core and control-center with the prefix
> "/opt/gnome" (in the .spec file). What prefixes should the other
> packages have? (glib, gtk+ ["/usr" ?], freetype, xscreensaver ?)

Normally you choose the same prefix for all of them, but theoretically you
could use all different prefixes.  Although, I haven't done this, it's not
very common practice I'm sure.

Mark Hankins