Re: GNOME install Order
- From: "Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight mindspring com>
- To: Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>
- CC: Patrick Markiewicz <pfm2 andrew cmu edu>, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GNOME install Order
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:23:03 -0400
Raja R Harinath wrote:
> > Hehe, like I said, "unless something has ... changed". :-) I was not
> > aware that libgtop now uses libgnomesupport in any form, and am almost
> > certain that it has not always been that was (and was not that way the
> > last time I compiled:).
>
> Hmm... That may be if the last time you compiled libgtop was a more
> than an year ago. Here's a ChangeLog entry of interest:
>
> 1998-06-08 Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org>
>
> * support: Added again.
>
> * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Added `support' again.
>
> * configure.in: First, we check for gnome. If it is not
> found, we run GNOME_SUPPORT_CHECKS; otherwise use
> `$GNOME_LIBDIR -lgnomesupport'.
>
> Not much has changed in this regard since, unless bitrot set in.
>
> However, you are right that the `libgtop' library itself doesn't
> appear to require `libgnomesupport'. Only the auxiliary programs
> (like the libgtop_daemon, which should be unused, anyway, on Linux)
> and example code need it.
Ok. Thanks for the clarification. :-) I guess it's more like, I
haven't really looked at the source since then, as I'm sure that the
last compile I did was in mid-January of THIS year.
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