Re: [Nautilus-list] Torture victim wanted

[Hassan Aurag <aurag crm umontreal ca>]

 Static linking is the answer. One big fat tar.gz/rpm/.deb with 
everything linked in. This is how game demos work, so I don't know why 
nautilus demos or any other software demo would be like this too.


 
 I am still waiting for nautilus demo ;)
 

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On 5/15/00, 11:22:05 AM, Eric Mitchell <emitchell@altaira.com> wrote 
regarding Re: [Nautilus-list] Torture victim wanted:


> I would claim to have a significant amount of hacking experience,
> and I have yet to get it built.  I try about twice every week or so.

> The main problem is the the proliferation of potentially unstable
> and/or non-standard GNOME libs required to build it.  The HACKING
> file has an excellent list of which branches of which modules are
> required to build it, but this doesn't seem to be enough.  I have
> a stock RedHat-6.1 machine (haven't upgraded to 6.2 yet, as it's
> my desktop machine and I need it for *real* work.

> It may require a slightly different construction process for each
> distro out there, as they all probably have slightly different
> releases of gnome support libs.

> I'll be more than happy to document any roadblocks I come across
> in the build process.  Stay Tuned.


> Elliot Lee wrote:
> >
> > Nautilus is reportedly very difficult to build - if someone with not
> > too much hacking experpience could try to get nautilus built out of 
CVS,
> > and write a summary of the problems encountered, that would be helpful 
to
> > the Nautilus hackers in fixing the problem.
> >
> > -- Elliot
> > "Moron of the week" for four years running
> >
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