Re: GNOME on SuSE 6.0, a nightmare.

[Jan Gentsch <gentsch ifm uni-hamburg de>]

You have given the answear yourself, use something like this (taken from
my spec-files):

export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/gnome/bin
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I/opt/gnome/share/aclocal"
if [ ! -f configure ]; then
  CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/X11R6/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib" \
  CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" ./autogen.sh --prefix=%prefix
else
  CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/X11R6/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib" \
  CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" ./configure --prefix=%prefix
fi

Then configure will find libpng, libz and co and everything should work
fine.
Gnome 1.0 will be available from my site
http://ifmpc118.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/gnome.html and mirrors propably
tommorrow morning.
After that there will be a clean-up period where the remaining SuSE
specific problems
and adaptions will be worked on.

Jan

Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> 
> Martin Hawlisch <hawlisch@roxi.rz.fh-mannheim.de> writes:
> 
> |   zlib caused a problem because SuSE installs the lib into
> |   /usr/X11R6/lib, I don`t know why, and the config-stuff and Makefiles
> |   couldn't find it because when linking -lz the Makefile and
> |   configure-script didn't add -L/usr/X11R6/lib and zlib was not found.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is for historical reasons; one figured out, normally
> there is no problem to configure and compile tar.gz files from
> ftp.gnome.org; I do my very best to spot difficulties and Miguel and
> friends are helpful to take care of it.
> 
> Of course, if one of these GNOME packages requires a newer than new tool
> or toolkit, you've to install it.  automake 1.4 e.g., is newer
> (1999-01-14) than the release date of SuSE Linux 6.0... not to mention
> gtk 1.2.  If _evaluated_ these package will find there way into the SuSE
> distro -- but not sooner ;-) As you all know, I hope, SuSE Linux is
> little bit conservative (the keyword is: stability).
> 
> |   So my questions is: What is causing the black icon problem? Should I
> |   try libpng 1.0.0 ??
> 
> I don't know.  All my testing was done with 1.0.1 and this works quite
> well.  No problems with icons (I perform by tests in most cases with
> 16bpp).
> 
> |   Btw, I used CVS GNOME from yesterday.
> 
> Okay, I've only tested the 1.0 (pre) serie.
> 
> --
> Karl Eichwalder
> 
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