Re: compiling gnome 1.4 beta

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:39:05PM +0100 or thereabouts, Johan Vervloet wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install gnome 1.4 beta 1 on my system, but I get this
> error message compiling gnome-libs :
> gnome-metadata.c:302: too few arguments to function
> The same error occurs at lines 329, 350, 357, 389, 416, 433, 450, 482
> and 515.
> Are there any suggestions to solve this problem ?

I met this. I think it's because I had several versions of db installed: 
db-1, db-2, db-3, and all the -devel packages. I put 
+%define  preferdb  --enable-prefer-db1
in the specfile and added "%{preferdb}" to the end of the two lines in
the specfile which start with: CFLAGS="$MYCFLAGS". It then compiled
well enough for me to get stuck further along.

I think for tarballs you can just ./configure (blah blah) --enable-prefer-db1

See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51192 and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50935

Telsa