Gnome-core 0.99.7

[Juan Rivero <juanr averroes ivic ve>]

Compiling gnome-core-0.99.7 from ftp sources:

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -o .libs/cpumemusage_applet cpumemusage.o
proc.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/gnome/lib ../../panel/.libs/libpanel_applet.so
-L/opt/gnome/lib -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lglib -lm
-lm -ldl -rdynamic -L/opt/gnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -rdynamic -lgnorba
-lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl
-lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXext -lX11 -lm -lgnome
-lgnomesupport -ldb -lglib -ldl -L/opt/gnome/lib -lgtop_common -lgtop
-lgtop_sysdeps -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXau -L/opt/gnome/lib -lglib
ld: cannot open -lXau: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [cpumemusage_applet] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/opt/gnome/gnome-core-0.99.7/applets/cpumemusage'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/gnome/gnome-core-0.99.7/applets'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/gnome/gnome-core-0.99.7'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2     

Obviously it is missing libXau.a, whatever that may be. Could someone
please tell me where Xau might live?

This kind of (not infrequent) problem might be cut down a lot if each
release of Gnome were accompanied by a *complete* parts list, i.e. "in
order to compile gnome 0.99.xxx you must have glib/gtk-1.1.xx, ORBit.yy,
..."  and so on. I don't trust the contents of the "latest" directory in
any of the ftp.gnome.org mirror sites (in fact I can't compile with
gtk 1.1.12 there). I can't ever get into ftp.gnome.org. I have troubles
with CVS, and besides that moves too fast. 

A complete parts list, (and the order in which each part should be built)
would cut down the "I can't compile" traffic on this list a lot, at least
for the ftp crowd.

TIA.

JR
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