Re: possible bug with gnome-config or gnumeric configure script

["Rene' Seindal" <rene seindal dk>]

Ali Abdin wrote:
> 
> I believe a simple 'fix' for this bug is to get Gnumeric to use libglade-config
> instead (a more proper fix is to fix gnome-config).
> 
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 03:05:32PM -0600, Jamin Philip Gray wrote:
> >
> > Well I finally got gnumeric 0.47 compiled.  What happened is in the
> > configure script it was calling gnome-config to check whether gladelib
> > was installed or not.  The problem seemed to be that gnome-config
> > didn't know that gladelib was installed in /usr/local/lib.  It only
> > checks /usr/lib.  So I had to install gladelib in /usr/lib instead of
> > /usr/local/lib.  I think there is a bug somewhere, you shouldn't have
> > to have the libs in /usr/lib.

It is a very common, and sensible practice to split software installed
as part of the system and software installed locally.  That is why we
have /usr/local in the first place.  Gnome should adapt better to
accomodate this way of doing things.

Now one has to manually link /usr/local/lib/*Conf.sh to /usr/lib and
also /usr/local/share/gnome/apps to /usr/share/gnome/apps to get the
menu entries.  There are probably other pitfalls as well.

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René Seindal (rene@seindal.dk)			http://www.seindal.dk/rene/