Re: Building gIDE?

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

On 2001.08.10 08:39 Jens Finke wrote:
> Hi Toralf,
> 
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Toralf Lund wrote:
> > >
> > > You need the modules gdl, gnome-debug and gnome-build to compile
> gIDE.
> > > That particular macro is defined in the module gdl.
> >
> > Seems like building everything is a bit too much hassle for now,
> > especially since gdl and gnome-debug don't contain RPM spec files. Are
> > binary RPMs available anywhere?
> 
> there are spec files for all these modules available now. Just make a cvs
> checkout, 
Great. Thanks!

> ./autogen.sh, make dist and then rpm -tb <tarball>. 
...which is exactly how I build everything else GNOME related (well, I
don't reall build _everything_, I actually prefer pre-built packages - but
only if they are part of a proper distribution). I think installing
directly from source is *BAD*. I wish there was a way to build multiple
packages that depend on each other in one go, though (but perhaps there
is?)


> You can
> adjust your desired prefix in the ~/.rpmmacros file (for an example of
> this look into /usr/lib/rpm/macros).
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   Jens
> 
> 
>