RE: Problem - Gnome Conf under Beta 2

[Patrick Best-TM <Patrick Best telus com>]

Does this mean I will not be able to use it?  Is gnome going through a
'backwards compatibility crisis'? 

What about creating a symlink or something between the pkginfo script and
the gnome-conf script?





-----Original Message-----
From: Pawel Salek [mailto:pawsa TheoChem kth se]
Sent: August 26, 2002 10:25 AM
To: Patrick Best-TM
Cc: News Gnome (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Problem - Gnome Conf under Beta 2



On 2002.08.26 16:17 Patrick Best-TM wrote:
> OK, I found a peice of mail where someone had the same missing file.
> 
> The mail can be seen at:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-db-list/1999-December/msg00035.html
> 
> The recommendation was to "You need gnome-libs-devel RPM, which
> contains
> this file".
> 

gnomeConf.sh is part of gnome-config script. gnome-config script has 
been deprecated in GNOME2 in favour of pkg-config. The software you try 
to compile apparently has not been ported to GNOME2.

/pawel



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Best-TM [mailto:Patrick Best telus com]
> Sent: August 26, 2002 9:31 AM
> To: News Gnome (E-mail); News Gnome (E-mail 2)
> Subject: Problem - Gnome Conf under Beta 2
> 
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am trying to compile some software that uses a script from Gnome
> Conf.
> Here is an output of my error.
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> I am trying to determine what this script does, and if the name or the
> function of it has changed in Beta 2v1.  I see from the Gnome 2 Build
> order
> at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/installation.html#buildorder that
> something called GConf has been installed .  Is this the same
> utility/library ?
> 
> Any help or new avenues of thought as to where I can redirect my
> configure
> to would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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