[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?
On 06/19/2012 06:39 PM, David Haller wrote: Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: (no, nobody really understands autotools) I do. Thanks for the excellent reply. Exactly what I needed to know.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?
On 06/19/12 21:03, walt wrote: Thanks. Is your bug report with gentoo or xfce.org? I notice that the git repo has commits as recently as last month. Maybe some heroic xfce dev will update the package to gnome3 for me :) I didn't open one; I searched for closed 'xfapplet' bugs and realized there was already an ebuild in the tree but it was removed. It doesn't look like there's anything new to release: http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin/log/ All of the commits in the last few years have been translations and permission bit twiddling. There is an XFCE bug open for it: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7963 but I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you. It sounds like the way Gnome 3 does things is incompatible with the panel applet concept. Of course, you can always keep your own copy of gnome-panel-2.x and its applets around. But it might be better to file a feature request to implement whichever panel applet you want for XFCE.
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?
On 06/19/2012 01:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:40 PM, walt wrote: I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, libbonobo and libbonoboui. I edited the autoconf.in to check for those standard libraries, and it did partly work. The generated makefiles now have correct entries like LIBBONOBO_CFLAGS. The problem is that those flags are never used during the compile phase. So, anyone know how make that extra step happen? (no, nobody really understands autotools) Is the applet publicly-available? If the build system isn't broken, it should all just work. If you cloned a git repository, you probably need to run autogen.sh first (and have xfce4-dev-tools installed). Otherwise, just ./configure make should do it. Got a link? If it works with 4.10, I can just make an ebuild for it. Thank to you and Ezequiel for the quick replies :) git://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin I didn't know about xfce4-dev-tools, thanks, but for me it still fails to find the headers for the bog-standard gnome libraries. I tried the standard autogen.sh and xdt-autogen, which seems to do much the same thing. The unmodified package wants libpanelapplet-2.0, which is older than the version 4.0 installed by gentoo's gnome-panel. I had to edit the config stuff to accept libpanelapplet-4.0. Maybe this xfce package is just too old to work with recent gnome?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?
On 06/19/2012 06:38 PM, walt wrote: Got a link? If it works with 4.10, I can just make an ebuild for it. Thank to you and Ezequiel for the quick replies :) git://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin Well, I basically recreated this: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/xfce-extra/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin-0.1.0.ebuild?revision=1.10 and went to open a bug for it. The good news is, I wound up with basically the same ebuild: I only had an additional dependency on libxfce4util. The bad news is, it probably isn't going to work for much longer -- that's why it got removed. It does compile on my machine though.
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?
On 06/19/2012 05:27 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/19/2012 06:38 PM, walt wrote: Got a link? If it works with 4.10, I can just make an ebuild for it. Thank to you and Ezequiel for the quick replies :) git://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin Well, I basically recreated this: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/xfce-extra/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin-0.1.0.ebuild?revision=1.10 and went to open a bug for it. Thanks. Is your bug report with gentoo or xfce.org? I notice that the git repo has commits as recently as last month. Maybe some heroic xfce dev will update the package to gnome3 for me :)
