Re: problem with self-built-rpm's

[Federico David Sacerdoti <fds offm62 wuh wustl edu>]

I have had the same problems as Richard with self built RPMS. My problems
with multiple instances of gmc competing for desktop drops was caused by a
gnome-lib-1.0.8 rpm which I had compiled.

I expect that the issues are caused by the spec files included with the
tarballs. Unfortunately, I do not know enough about the necessary file
structure for each package to repair or modify the .specs myself so I am
currently tied to the "working" RPMS distributed by RHAD. 

I guess this problem will remain until the tarball releases come with
truly workable spec files, but I realize that a *truly workable* state is
sometimes not known at the time of their release. I will wait and see what
the next source releases are like.

I do see the glibc2.1 indicator "__register_frame_info" error when trying
to compile gnome-core-1.0.5 using the gnome-libs-devel-1.0.8-2rh RPMS. But
the base libraries work fine on my glibc2.0 system, so I am not sure how
to proceed. 

For the moment I am enjoying a (relatively) stable gnome environment
defined by the new RH5.2 binaries.

-FDS



On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Mark Hankins wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Richard Brunner wrote:
> > I've built rpm's from the latest tarballs for my SuSE 6.0 System. Now I
> > have two problems, one with the panel and one with the control-center:
> > 
> > panel:
> > 
> > I can't add any applets, I don't know why, but if I click on an applet
> > (in the menu) nothing happens. To drag a menu-entry from the
> > "Start-menu" to the panel doesn't work too.
> > 
> > control-center:
> > 
> > To start the control-center is not the problem, but if I click, for
> > instance, on "background" it says me that is unable to reach the
> > control-center:
> > 
> > **WARNING** Unable to reach the control-center.
> > Exiting...
> 
> One thing that I have noticed about some of the .spec's that come with the
> gnome tarballs, is that they don't always include all of the files that the
> package would install.  Compile the package and install into an empty
> hierarchy of directories.  Then note files and directories everything went
> into and compare that to what the .spec has.  
> 
> > P.S.: I've installed gnome-core and control-center with the prefix
> > "/opt/gnome" (in the .spec file). What prefixes should the other
> > packages have? (glib, gtk+ ["/usr" ?], freetype, xscreensaver ?)
> 
> Normally you choose the same prefix for all of them, but theoretically you
> could use all different prefixes.  Although, I haven't done this, it's not
> very common practice I'm sure.
> 
> Mark Hankins
> 
> 
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