Re: [Evolution] trying to compile again...

[JP Rosevear <jpr arcavia com>]

Nathan Thompson-Amato wrote:
> NotZed wrote:
>
> > > My theory:
> > >
> > > The various Gnome RPMs are installed under /usr , but the default when
> > > you run configure (or autogen.sh, which runs configure for you) is to
> > > put things under /usr/local .  So Bonobo, ORBit, etc., are going to wind
> > > up installing under /usr/local and (I assume) looking for support files
> > > there as well.
> >
> > No thats not quite correct during the autoconf stage (it is when
> > compiling), aclocal looks for macros in the default place where
> > it was installed, which is /usr/share/aclocal, and that is the
> > problem it is having.
>
> Phooey.  I thought that might not pan out.   Thanks for correcting me.

You can also set the ACLOCAL_FLAGS variable to additional paths, ie:

ACLOCAL_FLAGS=-I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal

I do this in /etc/profile or you could do it in your local shell setup.

-JP
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