Re: Help building gnome from source

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Craig Wright <spiral@eece.unm.edu> writes:

> I've been working on getting the GNOME installed for the past couple days.
> I've been follwing the instructions in the FAQ for the order to build
> things in and have had a moderate amount of luck at getting things going.
> 
> Anyway, here's the order of installation that the FAQ recommends up to the
> point where things start to break for me. BTW, I'm running Debian 2.1 
> with gcc-2.7.2.3.
> 
>  glib    - done
>  gtk+    - done
>  imlib   - done
>  orbit   - done
>  gtk-doc - What's this package?  I havn't been able to find it so I skipped it.
>  libgtop - problems, see below.
>  gtk-engines
>  gnome-libs
>  gnome-core
>  control -center
>  gnome-print
>  mc
>  gnome-guile
>  gnome-python
>  gnome-objc
>  gtk--
> 
> I downloaded libgtop version 1.1.0 and ran the configure script like the
> instructions said to.  All was well till these lines came up,

Please use libgtop version 1.0.7 (or any other 1.0.x one) and install
gnome-libs first. The 1.1.x versions are for developers only.

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