compiling
- From: Michael Grant <mgrant grant org>
- To: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: compiling
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:36:02 +0200
I thought I'd try out gnome (my first time!) so I followed the
instructions on the webpage and draged over all the assorted things and
started compiling. Well, some of the things required other things I
didn't have, so I dragged them over too, I lost track of them all. Ok,
so now I've got nearly 12 hours of time sunk into this and I seem to
have hit a roadblock.
In trying to configure gnome-libs, there's a dependency on libdb. I
looked through some of the archive mail and there's a pointer to the
Berkeley sleepycat libdb. I tried this but I don't think this is the
right library. For starters, sleepycat has db_open() instead of
dbopen() which is what the configure script is looking for.
I think it's really the gnu libc, or some subset of it that is wanted.
So, I tried to compile glibc (which isn't supported on solaris!) and
then I ran into a whole string of other dependencies like crypt and the
gnu bin utils! I chased those down and of course, it doesn't compile
cleanly on Solaris. There's got to be an easier way.
Can someone please tell me where I can find libdb? And I don't think
it's part of the Linux distribution.
Even better, has someone compiled gnome for sparc/solaris 7?
Then I just saw Andy Kahn's message and now I'm worried that the ftp
site is out of date... Anyone have a suggestion on how to get gnome up
and running to play with in the least amount of hassle, or should I just
wait a few months?
Michael Grant
[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Thread Index]
[
Date Index]
[
Author Index]