Re: HELP! wierd compilation problem

[Jonathan Sergent <sergent+gnome kgb etla net>]

In message <199812121203.HAA06062@mail.redhat.com>, rafat@kcs.org.kw writes:
 ] I wanted to ask some questions and was wondering if you could help
 ] (since you're apparently doing the FAQ). Anyway - To get a 'decent'
 ] GNOME compilation what packages are necessary from the /snapshot/ site?
 ] Unfortunately for CVS all you need to do is a cvs -z3 checkout gnome
 ] and it checks out all the necessary packages (regardless of what they
 ] are!). Anyway, I was thinking we need al ist like this for daily
 ] snapshots (A simple: You need <X> if you want <Y> etc etc (i.e.
 ] gnumeric for spreadsheet) also an 'essential' section (what is needed
 ] for the basics). What I got was this:
 ] 1) Gtk+, Glib
 ] 2) libIDL, ORBit, Imlib
 ] 3) gnome-libs
 ] 4) libvfs (this is not on the jimpick daily snapshots - what is it?)
 ] 5) libgtop
 ] 6) gnome-core
 ] 7) gnome-guile
 ] 8) gnome-admin/games/network/utils
 ] 
 ] What about gtk-guile? What about gnome-xml and gnome-http (or was it
 ] gnonme-html) something like that?
 ] Any help is apprecaited
 ] 

On ftp.jimpick.com there are snapshots of "gnome" which have the same
things that "cvs co gnome" gets you.  The only extra thing you need
is gnome-print for gwp to compile, I think.


--jss.