Re: Um, hello;-}

[Cliff Wollam <cwollam watson wustl edu>]

Here are some more details for the problem I mailed about.
I have redhat linux 5.2 running on a pentium 75 machine.   Since
proclaiming "I want to see gnome on my desktop" I have downloaded
numerous binary rpm's and in turn uninstalled them and replaced them
with the sources I've compiled on my machine (sorry I don't have a list
of what all I've compiled, I'm not setting in front of my linux box
right now).

I hope this helps and thanks for the responses I've gotten today.

Cliff


>From plb@clanger9.demon.co.uk Mon Aug  9 12:39:01 1999
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 18:40:57 +0100
From: Paul Barnfather <plb@clanger9.demon.co.uk>
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Cliff,

Sorry to hear you've not had a good respons to your compile problem.

Really, we need to know what OS and compiler you are running.

Gnome-libs should build out of the box, with no tweaking required
at all. Some OS's may need system specific tweaks, but gnome-libs
is usually pretty well behaved here.

If you are using Linux, it should build in a day or so.
On Solaris, things are a little more tricky, but there's
nothing too difficult - my page at
http://www.clanger9.demon.co.uk/computer/gnome
should tell you all you need to know.

Good luck,

Paul.

Cliff Wollam wrote:
>
> Hello again everyone,
>
> I submitted a question a few days ago regarding a problem I'm having
> with building gnome-libs-1.0.10.  Here is part of the message I sent:
>
> I have been trying to build gnome-libs-1.0.10 forever now and here is
my
>
> most recent problem.  I am running the ./configure script and things
are
>
> going nicely except that it can't find file's for ESD and AUDIOFILE,
> then
> I get many many lines like the following:
>
> creating ./config.status
> creating gnome-bug
> sed: file conftest.s2 line 50: Unterminated `s' command
> creating gnome-config
> sed: file conftest.s2 line 50: Unterminated `s' command
>
> but the script continues and runs to completion.
> make then doesn't find any targets, I'm assuming because every
Makefile
> has 0 size.
>
> I could really use some help on this one as I don't have the first
clue
> what I would put in my own sed file to pass to configure, nor would I
> know
> how to go about editing a file that gets created by the configure
> script.
>
> I got one response in regards to the esd and audiofile (Thank you
Kevin)
> but a grand total of 0 concerning the main problem I'm having, the sed

> failure.  I refuse
> to believe that nobody out there know's what the configure script that

> comes with the gnome-libs sources does.  After all someone had to
throw
> it together in order for it to be included.
> So please if anyone out there is even so much as looking into what the

> problem could be, let me know.
>
> Thanks again,
> Cliff
>
> PS:  Has anyone else out there taken over a month just trying to get
> gnome running?