Re: How to compile nautilus2

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:48, Klaus Dahlke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> over the weekend I tried to compile Gnome2 from tarballs. I downloaded
> all the tarballs from a mirror (ftp.gwdg.de) and compiled according to
> the dependency diagram. By doing this, I skipped a few packages (like
> the xxx-mm ones). I experienced a few difficulties with the docbook
> thingy, but in general everything went well except for nautilius.
> 
> I untarred the nautilus tarball, went into that directory and did a
> './configure --prefix=/opt/gnome2' and the compilation started.
> Generally, the linking/creation of some libraries took a long time.  I
> waited for more than one hour for the compiling/linking of
> 'test-nautilus-mime-actions-set.c' to finish what not happened. I
> stopped then the compilation, deleted everything (the whole
> nautilus-2.0.0 directory), untarrerd again and did a './configure
> --prefix=/opt/gnome2 --disable-libtool-lock'. Then, the compilation got
> stuck at the creation of nautilus. I stopped it after about 30 min. In
> both cases, xosview showed 100%
> 
> After that, I decided to install the SuSE-rpms (nautilus and
> nautilus-gtkhtml). Basically it works now, but using anti-aliased fonts
> freezes the desktop (mouse can be moved but has no effect, keyboard not
> responding).
> 
> I run a 1GHZ Athlon with a 448 MB memory, a 2.4.10 Kernel out of a
> SUSE7.3.

you need to wipe out your .la files in /opt
eg: locate .la|grep la$|grep opt|rm -rf `xargs $3`

should work then

> Any ideas what causes the long time for linking?
> 
> Best regards,
> Klaus
> 
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