Re: error compiling CVS gconf

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com> writes:
> Mark <jamess1 wwnet com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >   I've encountered an error compiling gconf from cvs. It seems gconf is
> > being redefined, I'm not sure if this was intentional or not.
> 
> Mark, 
> 
> you are trying to build gconf with a glib 2.0 in your path... Bad idea. 
> I would suggest removing glib 2.0 from your /usr directory (put it in /usr/local/ 
> for example)
> 
> Alternatively, I think there are patches in gnome-vfs HEAD from cvs to make
> gconf build against glib 2.
> 

glib 2.0 shouldn't cause a problem, since includedir/glib-2.0 won't be
in the -I flags. Rather this error is often from installing over the
top of an old version of GConf. Blow away includedir/gconf* and it
should be OK.

Havoc