Re: gnome-system-monitor-2.10.0 does not build

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

Will be fixed in the next release. You need to remove the PATCHFILES
line from the g-s-m/Makefile since it's not needed anymore. Looks like
upstream has fixed this now.

Bob

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:01 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> gnome-system-monitor-2.10.0 does not build.
> 
> The problem is ./src/procdialogs.c:
> 
>         procdialogs.c: In function
>         `procdialog_create_root_password_dialog':
>         procdialogs.c:822: error: `entry_activate_cb' undeclared (first
>         use in this function)
>         procdialogs.c:822: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
>         reported only once
>         procdialogs.c:822: error: for each function it appears in.)
>         procdialogs.c:854: warning: implicit declaration of function
>         `su_run_with_password'
> 
> I took a look at the source code for gnome-system-monitor-2.9.91. In
> that version procdialogs.c defines the missing function. Version 2.9.91
> also requires libgnomesu be installed.
> 
> So... I built and installed libgnomesu, replaced the 2.10.0 version of
> procdialogs.c with the 2.9.91 version, diddled the makefile to pick up
> the includes from libgnomesu, and added libgnomesu to the link command.
> The app builds and runs.
> 
> Now the question is: What is the correct thing to do?
> 
> -Joseph
> -- 
> joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net
> 
-- 
Bob Kashani
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome