On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:35:28 +0000, Peter wrote: > I am new to garnome, but wanted to build it for Slackware 11. I have not > succeeded yet. I have a couple of questions and observations: > > obv) Slackware ships Seamonkey and the whole dev libraries. Epiphany and > other programs that expect either mozilla or firefox don't like this and > configure halts. I think xulrunner will be needed. > > question) Is it normal for gar to build all libraries in the gnome > directory even if they are already installed on the host? For example, I > have cairo 1.2.4 installed yet it is compiled again (causes errors about > symbols undefined as explained in another post.) >> FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden... yes >> checking for FT_Load_Sfnt_Table... yes > > Yet the symbol is deemed undefined later. > > question) Looking at the conf files, is gar even looking at the traditional > library paths? Or does it automatically create all dependent libraries? > Can this behavior be modified? > > Right now, I have not gotten through the whole process, but if I do, will > report how :) >
OK. With the stock Slackware 11 (rc5) the following did not compile: ekiga epiphany yelp Epiphany and yelp are dependent on mozilla libraries and headers. It does not like seamonkey. ekiga has the already-noted problem with the cairo or freetype libraries and undefined symbols. The following additional applications are not provided and have to be compiled separately: XML::Simple Pyrex libpng-1.2.12 In addition, if, like me, the user does not wish to use the gnome desktop -- just some applications, the startup scripts and daemons don't necessarily need to be loaded. Having a path to the gnome installation area is helpful though. It's not clear yet if LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs to be set to include the gnome libraries. I don't think so. Lastly, stripping the binaries and libraries will save some space, between 200-300mb. I have a question. If a user only wants certain applications, say evolution, can he/she simply do a make install in that dir and will all dependencies come in? Or, does the whole desktop make paranoid-install have to be done? Excellent work! -- Peter +++++ Do not reply to this email, it is a spam trap and not monitored. I can be reached via this list, or via jabber: pete4abw at jabber.org ICQ: 73676357 -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
