Re: [gnome-db] Building RPMs failes

[adam morrison-ind com]

>>I've posted mergeant RPM for RedHat 7.2.  I got the SPEC file from the
>>0.8.199 tar ball to work by removing the reference to the french docs.
>>The packages included with RedHat 8.0 aren't even close the mergeants
>>requirements, so it may be awhile before anyone can build on that (at
>>least standard RPMs).
>hmm, what requirements? because it should work with any recent GNOME 2.0
>platform, which is what includes RH8 AFAIK. So, it might be just a
>matter to upgrade the requirements specified in the spec and/or
>configure.in files.

configure: error: Library requirements (libgnomedb >= 0.8.199        
libbonoboui-2.0         libgda >= 0.8.190         gconf-2.0         gtk+-2.0 >=
1.3.1
gdk-pixbuf-2.0  libxml-2.0         libgnomeui-2.0 >= 1.106     
libgnomeprint-2.0       libgnomeprintui-2.0         libglade-2.0) not met;
consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries
are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.95192 (%build)

libgnomedb = 0.8.199-1  <<< Obviously OK
libbonoboui = 2.0.1-2 <<< OK
libgda = 0.8.199-1 <<< Obviously OK
GConf packages -
  GConf-1.0.9-6
  GConf-devel-1.0.9-6
  GConf2-1.2.1-3        <<<< Is this OK?
  GConf2-devel-1.2.1-3
GTK2 = 2.0.6-8         <<<< OK
GDK pixbuf = 0.18.0-4  <<<< ?  There doesn't seem to be a gdk-pixpuf-2.0
XML2 = 2.4.23-1  <<< OK
GNOMEUI = 2.0.3-3   <<< OK
GNOME Print = 1.116.0-2  <<< Old
GNOME Print UI = 1.116.0-1 <<< Old
GLADE2 = 2.0.0-2  <<< OK

I'll try to get a chance to install RH8.0 into a VM and see if
building/installing some newer base packages screws with their "blue curve" desktop.