Re: Help to compile 0.91-prex

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Dolores Alia de Saravia wrote:
> On Fru, 21 Feb 2003, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Dolores Alia de Saravia wrote:
> > > I'am trying to compile  dia 0.91 (I began 5 days ago because of 
> > > vacations). 
>
> > > But right now, I would like to understand better the differences 
> > > between some "words" appearing in dia.spec and INSTALL files
> > >      Requires
> >
> > This lists the packages necessary to run the compiled code.  Things 
> like
> > libgtk2 etc.
> >
> > >      BuildRequires
> >
> > This lists the packages necessary to compile the code.  On top of the
> > development versions of the above, it also includes some compilation 
> tools
> > like automake, autoconf and libtool.
> So, if I'm trying to install Pango, Pango-1.1.6,   from the tar.gz 
> file,
>    will I need, first, to install the BuildRequired packages?
>    I have found several of them but I have not benn able to find the
>    "xxxxx-devel" ones

They should all be in 

http://www.suse.de/us/private/download/gnomes/i386/update_for_8_0/devel.html
 
Or you can get the tarballs from ftp.gnome.org.  I guess I'll have to make
a diagram of the dependencies:)

> I also actualized my Suse to Suse 8.0 hoping for some of theese 
> packages to be already installed: but version numbers ar always less 
> than required. 

Yeah, Suse doesn't seem to have updated to the recent Gtk2 packages yet.

-Lars

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