Re: Gnome/RedHat Questions

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Gene C. wrote:

> 3. OK, since I like using rpm to build my binaries, I figured I would use
> it to rebuild gnome-core.  But first, lets try to at least compile the
> gnome-core source in the gnome-core-0.13*.src.rpm -- 
> 
> 	a) first, my "current" rpm did not like the gnome-core.spec (the readme in
> the devel directory mentions rpm 2.4.104 --- WHERE IS THIS???)
> 

rpm.2.4.12 is in ftp://.../redhat-5.0/update/SRPMS/rpm-2.4.12 ...
(somewhere in the 'updates' directory of RedHat Linux)

> 	b) Just to get it to sort of work, I commented out the offending line and
> tried again -- this time, it proceeded (boy, it it compute bound) until it
> could not find an executable called "mico-c++".
> 
> What goes???  Have you folks forgotten you have some stuff installed which
> IS REQUIRED to rebuild the binaries?

No, we/they did not, but the order the packages are listed on the
gnome.org is a little bit confusing:

      guile 
      umb-scheme (comes with RH 5.0), or get via ftp 
      giflib (latest available here) 
      libpng1.0 or higher
      gtk+ 
      imlib 
      gnome-libs 
      gnome-guile 
      gnome-objc 
      mico 
      gnome-core 
      gnome-games 
      mc 
      gmc 
      gnome-graphics 
      gnome-media 

You may install the packages in this order if you say 'rpm --force
- --nodeps' but you cannot build them this way:

The dependencies are about ('a -> b' means 'a requires b'):

  *  gtk+ -> giflib libpng
  *  imlib -> gtk+
  *  gnome-libs -> gtk+ imlib mico (here you'll get your mico-c++ from!)
  *  gnome-guile -> gtk+ guile umb-scheme
  *  gnome-core -> gnome-libs
  *  gnome-graphics -> (gnome-core?) gnome-libs
  *  gnome-games -> (gnome-core?) gnome-libs
  *  gnome-media -> (gnome-core?) gnome-libs
  *  gnome-utils -> (gnome-core?) gnome-guile gnome-libs
  *  mc, gmc, aorta, balsa -> (gnome-core?) gnome-libs

So you should compile about in the following order

  *  libgr, giflib, libpng
  *  gtk+
  *  imlib
  *  mico
  *  guile, umb-scheme

This are the base packages that you need in order to build the following:

  *  gnome-libs
  *  gnome-core
  *  gnome-guile, gnome-games, gnome-media, gnome-utils, ...


> Please pause and try installing on a "fresh" linux system.  Then rebuild
> all of the binaries from the source.  When you find all of the missing
> stuff, maybe you can then provide that so that the rest of us can install
> also.

I think there is nothing missing, not even in the RPMS. The question is
only that they have to be compiled/installed in a particular order - this
should be documented a little bit better.

Martin

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