Re: Trying to install Gnumeric on Mac OS X

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:50:22PM -0500, Lissa Johnston wrote:
> I'm a unix novice, but I read the instructions, and ran the configure 
> script. There are no makefiles found when I try to execute the make 
> command
That is correct.  The Makefiles are generated by configure to handle
your machine's unique configuration.

> and the last line output to the screen by configure was 
> "configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is 
> generated by gnome-libs install".  The entire screen output is below, 
> from the command I entered. Can someone tell me what I need to do?

> checking for gnome-config... no
> checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
> configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is 
> generated by gnome-libs install

That is definitely the source of your problems.  How did you install
'gnome-libs' ? I suspect that you used a package rather than source.
The trick is that you are going to want the '-dev' or '-devel'
version of it also.  Most of the core gnome libraries are packaged
in 2 parts
    1) the library itself, used to run applications.
    2) the development support files, used to compile new
      applications

If you want to build gnumeric from source you'll need (2) for
several packages (listed in the README)

Good Luck
    Jody