Re: HELP:help-browser.idl error in gnome-core-1.0.53

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Scott Barber wrote:

> 	This is my first post to the list and forgive me if my question
> is redundant.  (I did attempt to look through the October archive).
> 
> I'm trying to compile GNOME on an HP-UX 10.20 and ran into the following
> error:
> 
> Making all in gnome-info2html
> /users/inri/software/gnome.new/gnome-core-1.0.53/help-browser/gnome-info2html
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/users/inri/software/gnome.new/gnome-core-1.0.53/help-browser/gnome-info2html'
> gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/users/inri/software/gnome.new/gnome-core-1.0.53/help-browser/gnome-info2html'
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/users/inri/software/gnome.new/gnome-core-1.0.53/help-browser'
> ../idl/help-browser.idl
> gmake[3]: execvp: ../idl/help-browser.idl: Permission denied

> I've looked at the file, and tried to make it executable, but that didn't
> work.  Am i missing a dependant package?

It's trying to execute a data file. Hmm, maybe gnome-core doesn't error
out if ORBit is not installed - make sure you've installed the packages in
the order specified on the tarballs download page (see
http://www.gnome.org/start/).

-- Elliot					http://developer.gnome.org/
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