Re: Balsa sentboxes and gnome-print

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield MindSpring com>]

Phil:

Off-list mail bounced, so I'm posting this.

On 2001.10.30 07:02 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 2001.10.30 16:37 Philip Rhoades wrote:
...
>> - The stock RH7.1 rpm for balsa-1.2.1 has gnome-print working, when 
>> I compile from the source (with your patches of course), the 
>> configure script does not detect that the system has gnome-print - 
>> of course it does (I double checked with gnome-config) and I 
>> uninstalled and re-installed gnome print rpms and messed around with 
>> the configure script (including "define HAVE_GNOME_PRINT 1") but I 
>> can't get the thing to work - I am guessing it is something dumb 
>> like a configure switch or something?
>> 
>> Sorry to bother you.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Phil.
> 
> Phil:
> 
> I'm afraid I can't help you there--I've never explored the nastiness 
> that underlies `configure' and the rest, and printing simply started 
> working after I installed gnome-print.
> 
> Generally, when I've had problems getting those hooks to work, it's 
> been because gnome-config was giving a wrong response, but you say 
> it's answering correctly here.  Those miserable *Conf.sh files are 
> involved, but again, the error that results from those being missing 
> is the incorrect response from gnome-config, iirc.
> 
> I take it that configure responds with the `did not find any version' 
> message?
> 
> Peter