Re: Clueless newbie wants help.

[Jerry Talkington <jtalkington users sourceforge net>]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:55:59PM -0400, Bill White wrote:
> Hi.  I am trying to build gnome using garnome.0.27.1.  I get to
> the build of epiphany, and it fails looking for the package
> mozilla-gtkmozembed.  I am using a fairly stock Debian Woody
> installation.
> 
> There is a note someplace in the gnome mailing list archive
> that says I have to build mozilla with a special patch found in
> the galeon cvs repository.  Is this right?  Do I have to build
> all of mozilla to build Gnome?  Can I somehow eliminate epiphany
> instead of trying to rebuild mozilla.  The last time I tried to
> build Mozilla from scratch I broke make and had to install several
> different versions of automake and autoconf.  I really don't
> look forward to doing this.

You can just comment Epiphany out of the meta/gnome-desktop/Makefile.  It's
not a required component of Gnome, it's just there for you to have a
browser.

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