Re: vte won't compile

[Amarpreet Rattan <arattan math uwaterloo ca>]

On Sunday 25 July 2004 21:07, Paul Drain wrote:
> > 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

well, this the first set of options that someone has given me that i haven't 
tried yet.  i will give it a try.  in particular, option 2 seems pretty 
painless.

amp