Re: failing to find libole2

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:52:04PM +1000, Katharina Siebke wrote:
> checking the archive I found several peple having this problem, but no
> helpful solution.
> I try to install gnumeric on slackware 7.1 (my first installation of any
> gnu-program)
>
> Even after I installed libole2-0.2.4.tar.gz from the given ftp site I
> get the same error meassage.
> I also tried ./configure --prefix=/usr for libole2
> I can not find a liboleConf.sh
> gnome-config --libs libole2 returns: Unknown library 'libole2'
>
> ./configure of gnumeric returns:
> checking for libole2 >= 0.2.4      ... <FAIL> not found
> configure: error: This version of gnumeric requires an external
> libole2 library the latest version can be obtained from
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/libole2/

setenv GNOME_PATH /usr
or
export GNOME_PATH=/usr

rm config.cache
and rerun configure