Re: building gnome 2.0

[Ravi Pratap M <ravi che iitm ac in>]

Hi Owen,

On 17 Jun 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

> If I had to guess, you have ORBit.m4 installed in two places
> (one from old, one from new) and aclocal is erroring out
> for that reason.

	Bang on target ! Hmm, so how do I set up my ACLOCAL_FLAGS to look
only at my new macros (found in the /opt/gnome2 prefix) and not at my
older ones ? I believe macros are installed in $prefix/share/aclocal and
since there are already are the old ones in the /usr prefix, how do I make
sure aclocal sees _only_ my /opt/gnome2 prefix ones and not in addition ?


> Basically, as far as GTK+, things are designed to parallel install
> properly and easily, beyond that, it has not yet been fully fixed, so
> things get harder.

	Yes, so let's fix them ! I'll patch these now and send them to the
respective maintainers.

	Regards,

		Ravi


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	Ravi Pratap M         <ravi che iitm ac in>
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