Just FYI, mostly... Abiword-2.9.3 in the current BLFS svn version failed to build without GTK+-3 which is not listed as a required package in the book.
From the failed build... --------------------------------------------- configure: error: Package requirements ( fribidi >= 0.10.4 glib-2.0 >= 2.6.0 gthread-2.0 >= 2.6.0 gobject-2.0 >= 2.6.0 libgsf-1 >= 1.12 wv-1.0 >= 1.2.0 enchant >= 1.2.0 gio-2.0 cairo-pdf cairo-ps pangocairo gtk+-3.0 >= 3.0.8 gtk+-unix-print-3.0 librsvg-2.0 >= 2.16.0 cairo-fc x11) were not met: No package 'gtk+-3.0' found No package 'gtk+-unix-print-3.0' found --------------------------------------------- I restored a tarball from an earlier point in the project and installed GTK+-3 alongside the existing GTK+-2. I also decided to install GOffice upgraded from v0.8.17 to to v0.10.0 since GTK+-3 was now present. Abiword-2.9.3 then installed normally, but it looked terrible (blacked out page rulers, blacked out highlighted text, black page borders, for example). That stuff was not unheard of on the Internet from back last summer. I uninstalled Abiword-2.9.3 and installed Abiword-2.9.4 which sort of fixed the rulers & borders. I then could see the rulers and tabs which seemed to work okay, but they looked kind of graphically crude. Both of these new Abiwords also ignored the normal.awt file in my home directory. Maybe people who install Gnome or KDE have some widget or other that I don't have and none of this happens to them. I have no way to know. In the end, I had no patience for any of this and restored again to my non-GTK+-3 BLFS project and continued on with it and the old Abiword-2.8.6 again. It's been working (and looks) fine. I'm almost finished with the project without needing GTK+-3 anyway. Just thought somebody might want to know that Abiword may be busted now. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
