Re: Gnome Compiling Instructions a bit fuzzy

[Aschwin van der Woude <aschwin van der woude creanor com>]

Perhaps it would be good to first try a more easy approach on compiling
Gnome, using garnome. http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/

Garnome will download and compile gnome source tarballs in the right
order for you. Garnome also makes it easy to test the latest Gnome
without it effecting the rest of the system. So no need to remove
existing installed packages.

Have fun,

Aschwin

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 01:10, Sean D. Rafferty wrote:
> I am attempting to compile the Gnome 2.1 sources from the tarballs to
> gain some experience with packaging and whatnot.  My main problem is
> making sure the packages are "registered" (perhaps not the proper
> terminology, sorry).  After the regular configure, make, make intall, I
> run the ldconfig.  As far as I know, this "registers" the packages with
> Linux (I'm using redhat 7.3).  Running pkg-config --list-all does not
> show _all_ the packages I (properly?) compiled and installed.  I've read
> about exporting a proper PKG_CONFIG_PATH and mine is currently at
> /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
> 
> I read somewhere that you should remove older versions of a package
> before installing newer ones.  Gnome.org posts:
> 
> "If you are installing from source onto a system that has GNOME
> installed via the packaging system, please remove the packages before
> compiling."
> 
> How does one go about doing this?  Can someone point me to documentation
> that describes in detail package managing?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> 
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