I had trouble in getting to gnome-lib .13

[Keith Wright <kwright tiac net>]

I am trying to compile gnome-lib-0.13 and gnome-core-0.13 from
downloaded tar.gz files.  I have no gnome, but I do have gtk+-1.0.1
installed and the gimp working with it.  I have Linux 2.0 kernel,
originally a Slackware system but with many years of installing from
downloaded source.

I have gotten the gnome-lib to compile, whether it works I don't know
yet.  I did some marginal hacks to get it to compile.

I am stuck compiling guile-core.  It says:

mico-c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-I. -I. -I.. -DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include
-I/usr/local/include/libgnomesupport -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -c
-fPIC -DPIC applet-lib.cc
../libtool: mico-c++: command not found
make[2]: *** [applet-lib.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/ibm/src/gnome-core-0.13/panel'

So what is this mico-c++?  I thought gnome was based on C, that's one
reason I chose it.  Do I need C++ to compile it?

Other problems: the gnome-libs README lists a few prerequisite
packages, but omits 'imlib' and 'zlib', which seem to be required.
The loader flags -lgdk_imlib -ljpeg and sometimes -lz are missing in
Makefile.  The file imlib/utils/testimg.c would not compile.  I ran
out of virtual memory on a 16M Pentium.  It turns out that the whole
file is one 18,000 line char[] definition.  I split it in two.  I'm
not sure why it should take so much storage to compile this
essentially trivial program, but given that it does, maybe the source
should be broken into smaller pieces.

-- 
     --Keith

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