David R. Morrison wrote:
> 
> On Jul 6,2002 17:56:42 +0200, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
> 
>>Pejvan BEIGUI wrote:
>>
>>>Here's what I get when trying to install sawfish
>>> 
>>>
>>>>[localhost:~] pejvan% fink install sawfish)
>>>
>>>>configure: error: You need rep-gtk version 0.14+
>>>>###  failed, exit code 1
>>>>Failed: compiling sawfish-1.0.1-1 failed
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>>[localhost:~] pejvan% fink install rep-gtk
>>>
>>[]
>>
>>>>pkg rep-gtk  version 0.15-3
>>>
>>[]
>>
>>>Any idea ?
>>
>>I confirm this bug.
>>
>>Looks to me like a case of bit-rot in the (unmaintained?) packages 
>>librep and rep-gtk.
>>
>>librep puts things into /sw/lib/rep/powerpc-apple-darwin and has this 
>>also hardwired in the /sw/bin/rep-config script (try "rep-config 
>>--execdir").
>>rep-gtk, OTOH, puts similar things into /sw/libexec/rep/powerpc-apple-darwin
>>
>>If you modify your stable/main/finkinfo/languages/librep-0.14-6.info (or 
>>the corresponding one in unstable if you use unstable) as follows:
>>
>>replace in the ConfigureParams: line the --libexecdir='${prefix}/lib' by
>>--libexecdir='${prefix}/libexec'
>>
>>and rebuild librep, then sawfish will compile.
>>
>>I don't know anything about the rep language and rep-gtk, so I don't 
>>know if this is a reasonable patch, but it seems to work for this case.
>>(/sw/libexec is illegal, isn't it?)
>>
> 
> 
> Yes, /sw/libexec is illegal.  Isn't there a way to fix this which also
> corrects that error in rep-gtk?

Yes, I think so:

I did another test: Left librep alone and dropped a line

ConfigureParams: --libexecdir='${prefix}/lib'

into gnome/rep-gtk-0.15-3.info

This seems to work, too: After rebuilding librep and rep-gtk, sawfish 
compiles. I haven't yet looked whether it runs OK.

-- 
Martin



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