Re: Gnome troubles on FreeBSD (was: FreeBSD trials and tribulations...)

["Spud" <spud got sucked into the blackhole org>]

    Do you have libpng 1.0.1 or 1.0.3 installed? (not 1.0.2). If not, make
sure you are installing a shared library of it, then recompile imlib.

>"gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
>/usr/local/share/pixmaps/panal-arrow-left.png
>All fallbacks failed."
>
>with each of the many messages referring to a different png image file
>that it could not load.
>
>I posted a message to the mailing list and got some tips and suggestions
>(one of which suggested that gmodule was not working and that I needed
>to remove (or comment out) the reference to gmodule in the imlib
>config.h file and then re-compile imlib, but after making the mod, imlib
>would NOT compile. Anyway, to make a long story short...I would love to
>get gnome working on my FreeBSD box but I am stuck at this point.
>
>BTW, I'm running FreeBSD 3.1 release.
>
>Did you run across this problem, and or have any ideas of why it may be
>occurring?
>
>I would be very grateful if you could share your experience of getting
>gnome compiled and running, and perhaps shed some light on this image
>loading problem.
>
>Any help would be great. TIA!
>--
>Devin.
>
>
>Josh Emmons (skia) wrote:
>>
>> Well, I've compleated compiling the bleeding edge gnome on FreeBSD and
boy
>> are my arms tired!
>>
>> Most of the early libs and such were cake to install -- but about the
time
>> I get to gnome-libs and gnome-core everything started to break down.
>>
>> orbit-config wasn't defined in any of the makefiles that it should have
>> been, a bunch of liborbit and libgnorba directories needed to be filled
in
>> by hand.  The same with libzvt.
>>
>> Now that I've got it all straightened out, I wanted to ask why these
>> things weren't foudn and set up by configure.  I had installed all the
>> past packages with the prefix /opt/gnome or /opt/gtk, would that make it
>> hard for configure to do it's job?  Are there command line options that I
>> could have passed to configure to help it out?
>>
>> I'd like to wrap up this release into the FreeBSD ports collection, so
any
>> help you can give would be appreciated!
>>
>>   Josh Emmons...j-emmons@sjca.edu
>>
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