Re: new developer

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Hi,

I believe you are using sid. So do I. To compile gnumeric you need to 
get gal, libgsf and gnumeric from cvs. When you autogen.sh them make 
sure to specify --prefix=/usr

It works for me. It should for you.

Do not copy any files manually or symlink anything. Just use autogen.sh, 
make, make install.

Andreas

Charles R. Twardy wrote:

> Sorry to bother again. I'm still having problems compiling on debian sid.
> They now appear to be related to the "apt-get" problem.
>
> I'm having more luck with gnumeric HEAD than with RELEASE, so we'll talk
> about that first.
>
> I. Problems compiling HEAD
> ----------------------------
>
> So far I've had to make a few modifications to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/  :
>   * After building libgsf-1 from cvs, "make install" was insufficient.
>     So I manually copied libgsf-1.pc to this directory.
>   * Then, I had to add a symlink
>         libgnomeprint-2.0.pc -> libgnomeprint-2.2.pc
>     because gnumeric had said it required:
> 	libgnomeprint-2.2 >= 2.2.0 
>     but also complained:
>         ... Package libgnomeprint-2.0 was not found in...
>         Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgnomeprint-2.0.pc'
>         to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>
> Now, it's complaining about libgal2.0, which brings me back to the
> "apt-get" error that won't let me install gnumeric via "apt-get":
>
> libgal2.0-dev: Depends: libgal2.0-1 (= 1.99.2-3.1) but it is not installable
>
> Package libgal2.0-1 has no available version, but exists in the database.
>
>
> So I made a guess and did "cvs co gal". I'm now compiling that, but I
> think I'd better ask here.



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