SOLVED: Re: gmc .14 complains about not finding icons

["Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <bulkmail dds nl>]

Hi there,

Responding to my own question, I feel ashamed I even bothered to ask....
Solving this was _so_ easy.
I grepped the gnome/ subdir of the mc dir to find the file containing the
error string. This was gicon.c. This file tries to load a couple of .png
icons, and fails when one is missing. I looked in
/usr/local/share/pixmaps/mc and I saw that 'i-fifo.png' was missing.

So all I had to do was:
    cp i-sock.png i-fifo.png
and gmc worked again (yeah this a workaround). It's better than downloading
(slow modem) and recompiling....

Thanks for your answer.

Dirk-Jan.




-----Original Message-----
From: Roberto Zunino <zunino@cli.di.unipi.it>
To: Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <bulkmail@dds.nl>
Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: gmc .14 complains about not finding icons


>
>On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> When starting gmc 4.5.14, its complains about not being able to find
icons,
>> and stops. This problem is probably caused by an older version (ie.
4.5.12)
>> with stuff lying around, I tried to clean it, though.
>>
>> So my question is: What should I do to get 4.5.14 running?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>It happened to me too.
>
>If you used patches to upgrade 4.5.12 source code to 4.5.14 you probably
>are missing the new icons in the source tree. This happened to me
>when I upgraded from 4.5.12 to 4.5.13 .
>The problem is that diff generates patches only for _text_ files, and
>therefore it's good for code, Makefiles, etc. but not for images like the
>.png that are used for icons.
>The funny thing is that the build phase was ok: I both compiled and
>installed gmc without problems. Only at runtime I got the error "missing
>icons!".
>I fixed it by downloading the whole tarball, to make sure there are the
>new images/icons. Of course there should be a more bandwith-saving
>solution (you could download just the new png's from anoncvs, for
>example).
>
>I'm no expert and I could be entirely wrong, but if you want you can try
>to download the full gmc tarball. Hope this helps!
>
>BTW, there's a good alternative to diff/patch? (xdelta maybe??)
>