Re: jpeg and gtk

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- Bill Cunningham <billcm charter net> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Davis" <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>
> To: "Bill Cunningham" <billcm charter net>
> Cc: <gtk-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:12 AM
> Subject: Re: jpeg and gtk
> 
> 
> > I just relooked at your make.log, a shot in the dark, but here are two
> > things to try:
> >
> > First, in the base gtk+ directory do this:
> >
> > find ./ -name Makefile | xargs grep "@libdir@"
> >
> > Hopefully, it'll come up with a single line....hopefully.
> >
> > Anyway, any lines that do come up with it, comment them out unless its
> part
> > of a bigger line.
> >
> > If it is a part of a bigger line, copy the line, comment one out, and
> remove
> > the bit that has @libdir@ in it.
> > Ie remove -L libdir@
> >
> > I realize this is kind of a biatch, but it might work.
> >
> > This really looks like a problem with autotools.  Your Makefile having
> > unsubstituted variables. (This is where I plug scons, the bettte build
> tool)
> >
> > Let me know if that doesn't work out for you.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > Paul
> 
>     Well I tried your command line Paul and this is what I got. Maybe you
> can make more sense of it than me.
> 
> Bill
> 
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Bill, why can't you first install any normal modern Linux distro, and then
try to compile from source library after library NOT putting them in system
directories ?

I've been observing this list for a number of months, and nobody has difficulties
like the ones you have, as well as nobody feels as free as you do to change things
in system directories.

--Sergei.

Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/

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