Re: [gnome-db] Re: Building Glom

[Marko Anastasov <marko marko anastasov name>]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 14:54 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 14:44 +0200, Marko Anastasov wrote:
> > > afaik, both postgresql-dev and mysql-dev should be available as packages
> > > in FC5. So, try using yum or whatever package manager FC5 has.
> > 
> > Yeah but for jhbuild-ing I use a prefix in my home dir, so
> > that doesn't help much.
> 
> This is an annoying new problem in jhbuild. I guess there's a reason
> that it doesn't use stuff from /usr, but I fix that by doing this:
> 
> #Use existing packages even inside jhbuild:
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> 
> in a script before starting jhbuild.
> 
> I think you can also use addpath() in jhbuildrc. That is mentioned here,
> for instance:
> http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildOnUbuntu
> 
> 
> This might introduce the additional problem that libtool insists on
> using some libraries from /usr/lib that you _don't_ want, such as old
> versions of glib, instead of cvs versions of glib with new API. If that
> happens, try _carefully_ deleting all .la files in /usr/lib. It's
> extreme, but it works, and everyone seems to do it. 
> 

Ok before trying that, I just want to check about this:

(from the rpm manpage)

Install and upgrade options
...
--prefix NEWPATH
For relocatable binary packages, translate all file paths that start
with the installation prefix in the package relocation hint(s) to
NEWPATH.

Does anyone do this?

Marko