Re: Compiling Glom on FC5?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 02:17 -0500, Peter Williams wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been interested in running Glom on my Fedora box for a long time,
> but I'm not a big fan of installing bleeding-edge unpackaged software,
> so I haven't been able to run it as of yet.

Some people seem to be working on packages, but sometimes it takes some
time.

>  Now with the release of FC5,
> I think I'm really close to being able to run Glom, but there are a few
> barriers in my way. I have two observations and a question:
> 
> *) I need pygda-1.2. I've been able to dig up references to this (eg
> http://www.mail-archive.com/glom-devel-list gnome org/msg00045.html) but
> there were no hints from the Glom download page, and the top Google hit
> is not helpful. Might be useful to put info about this on the Wiki. (I
> didn't want to do that unilaterally though.) And, referencing Murray's
> linked email, the FC5 gnome-python2-extras package doesn't seem to
> contain pygda.

It should. Maybe you should file a bug with the FC5 package maintainer.

> *) I need libgdamm > 1.3.7. The Glom Download page makes it look like
> this should just come with gtkmm but this doesn't appear to be the case,
> at least in the FC5 packages.

No, it is a separate package. I don't see how the page suggests that it
is.

> *) I'm OK with just compiling libgdamm separately. However, it wants to
> compile against libgda-1.9.101, whereas FC5 packages 1.9.100.

No, libgdamm-2.0 needs libgda 1.2.2. What makes you think that it needs
libgda 1.9? Are you using tarballs or cvs? If you are using cvs, you
might be using the wrong branch.

By the way, libgda 1.2 and libgda 1.9/2.0 install in parallel (like GTK+
1.2 and GTK+ 2.x), so FC5 should have no problem packaging them both.

>  So close!
> I tried just editing the configure check, but got a compile error;

In general, this is a mistake.

>  are
> the differences between 100 and 101 small enough so that I can just fix
> things with a small change to libgdamm, or do I really need to get
> 1.9.101 installed?

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