Re: vte won't compile

[Paul Drain <pd cipherfunk org>]

> the problem seems to be that the 'make paranoid-install' is looking for
> libgtk-x11-2.0.la in /usr/lib.  why it is looking for it there i don't
> know.  i looked in the /home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib and libgtk-x11-2.0.la
> is there, so it was built by the 'make paranoid-install'.  for some reason
> it doesn't want to use the one in /home/garnomeuser/garnome/lib.

*sigh*

For some reason, this crops up a lot on earlier Red Hat boxes. .la files
are just a shell script that sets some variables so that you can get at
the actual .so or .a file.

Your two options here, are:

* upgrade libtool (recompiling the source RPM from Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3 works) and do a 'make clean / make install' on 'platform/vte'
and it's dependencies.

or:

* remove all the .la files from your $GARNOME/lib directory and do a
'make clean / make install' in platform/vte.

Regards,

Paul