Re: GNOME on commerical UNIX (Re: Gnome installation on an HP station)

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

>From: Brian Seklecki <lavalamp burghcom com>

>If my problems compiling GNOME software don't clear up soon, I'm going to
>start taking drastic measures to end the madness, diffing up LS output,
>looking for symlinks and duplicates, and moving all these binaries to where
>they should be, /usr/bin.


If you're not compiling Gnome on Solaris for the fun of it, why are you doing it 
at all?  Have you seen http://www.sun.com/software/gnome/ or the Helix site or 
http://sunfreeware.com of http://freeware4sun.com just for starters where you 
can get Gnome binaries that work just fine?  You can even get it on CD if you 
get Solaris 8 Update 2(10/10) - it's on the Companion CD, along with 
Enlightenment and lots of other things.

I compiled it coz I run Solaris 9 Alpha, and the Helix installer didn't like it. 
And I started out compiling it at 0.50.2, so I'm used to the issues involved.  
But I wouldn't do it otherwise.

Same goes for XMMS - there's a Solaris binary available from their website.  And 
the latest version for Solaris defaults to the Solaris audio output plugin, so 
you can forget the ESD one ;O)

Ta,
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