Re: Howdy

["C.J. Adams-Collier" <cjac colliertech org>]

Hal doesn't work on RHEL3.  Requires a 2.6 kernel.

Dependency on hal should be removed from gnome-vfs if uname -r is less than 2.6

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 08:05 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
>     hal also breaks because of the --as-needed flag to ld
>     
>     On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:21 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> >         libvolume_id is also broken.  the --as-needed arg doesn't work with the ld distributed with RHEL3
> >         
> >         
> >         On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 10:33 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> > >             Hey folks,
> > >             
> > >             I'm sending this stuff to the list so that it doesn't get lost in the noise of #garnome
> > >             
> > >             * 2.16.3's gtkhtml does not include a dependency on platform/libgnomeui
> > >             
> > >             * RHEL3 has an *old* version of python.  I had to install Python-2.5.1.tar.bz2 to get libxml2 working
> > >             * the pkg-config shipped with RHEL3 is old, too.  I installed pkg-config-0.22.tar.gz and life is better
> > >             * cairo depends on libpng, which is not shipped with RHEL3
> > >             
> > >             RHEL3 is supported in "maintenance" mode until 2010.  It's the OS that our org uses for developers, so it would be great if garnome would build to the platform...
> > >             
> > >             More when I get time...
> > >             
> > >             C.J.
> > >             
> > >         
> >