RE: error building balsa

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Telsa Gwynne [mailto:hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 3:17 AM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: error building balsa
> 
> (Most of this message applies to Red Hat.)
> 
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 09:20:04AM +0000 or thereabouts, Paul 
> Lewis wrote:
> > When I try to install balsa at the stage where I 
> ./configure it starts
> > but then errors reporting that glib is not installed. And 
> advises that
> > Gnome requires glib I am writing this in Netscape under 
> Gnome at the 
> > moment so I assume it must be present on the system somewhere.
> > 
> > Help and suggestions please.
> 
> You don't say what system you're running. I wonder if it's Red Hat
> Linux? 
> 
> Red Hat splits many packages into package.rpm and package-devel.rpm.
> You only need to install the package-devel.rpm if you are going to 
> build other programs which depend on that package. The thingy-devel 
> package contains the files required to build programs which rely
> on package thingy. If you're the sort of person who just wants to
> install a system and go, so to speak, and won't be adding new things
> other than more binary rpms, then you don't need the devel packages.
> If you are going to compile stuff, you will.

To be fair, this isn't something that RedHat does, it's something that they
designed RPM to do.  The other RPM based distros have the same "feature".
The idea was to allow people to avoid installing the "extra" stuff that they
didn't need to have for a "home" computer, I.E. one that wouldn't be used
for software development.  It's a really nice feature, once you figure it
out.:)
	Greg