Re: Unknown library 'applets'

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Junichi Saito <j.saito@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> In article <000301be6ce8$77a3f980$453113d0@vodon.jetlink.net> you wrote,
> 
> >However,
> >when trying to compile anything like libgtop, ee, balsa, gEdit and the like,
> >the configure
> >script tells me:
> >"unknown library 'applets'"
> >
> >Why would this happen? I have compiled everything in order according to
> >instructions

It is harmless.  It happens when `gnome-core' hasn't yet been
installed.  However, GNOME_INIT used to define GNOME_APPLETS_LIBS
 
> There were mails sent about this a while ago. The message is due to the
> macro GNOME_APPLETS_LIBS defined in gnome.m4, if I understand. I don't
> know, however, what it is there for. 'configure' seems to look for a lib
> such as libapplets, which dosen't exist. What I can tell is that, as
> somebody already pointed out, it dosen't seem to be fatal for the build
> itself.
> 
> Moreover, changes seem to have been made in CVS, as last time I compiled
> gnome stuff, I didn't see the message.

I fixed it on CVS recently.  Also, you'll not see this error if you
installed `gnome-core' at some time.

- Hari
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