Re: Newbie Question about gnome-config --libs

[Cory Watson <gphat cafes net>]

If you make a symbolic link from the bonoboConf.sh, and the other 3
libraries in /usr/lib.  gnome-config seems to look in /usr/local/lib...
that or it's vice versa... theres probably a better way to fix this, but
thats how I did it;)

At 11:28 PM 5/13/00 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm new to gnome - with the exception of just using it.... so bear with
>me.
>
>I've downloaded the evolution alpha to try it out and downloaded the
>lastest, requirements as rpms except for versions of bonobo-0.12
>gnome-vfs-0.1 gtkhtml-0,2 and libunicode-0.4 (all of which were compressed
>sources as rpms are not yet avaiable). My gnome installation is a standard
>Mandrake 7 out of the box via rpms. Now, I've compiled the 4 required
>sources and upgraded all relavant rpms (including gnome-libs to
>v1.0.61) but my porblem comes with './configure' -ing the evolution
>source. it complains the gnome-config --libs bonobo cannot find the
>library and falls out. Now, the bonobo libraries (as with the three other
>compiled packages) are installed in the default location of
>/usr/local/lib. However, gnome-config is always looking in /usr/lib. Is
>there any way to get round this easily (me chicken-s*** :-) )? As I don't
>fancy recompiling anything I already have thru rpms etc. 
>
>I only wanted to try this evolution thing ..... :-)
>
>Cheers all.    
>
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Cory 'G' Watson