Re: RE : [gnome-slackware]Compiling Gnome on Slackware

["Boris Kaplun" <b_kaplun mailru com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "fflewddur" <fflewddur dropline net>
To: <gnome-slackware gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: RE : [gnome-slackware]Compiling Gnome on Slackware


> On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 18:16, Nicolas Laplante wrote:
> > - Watch out for shared libraries like libxml/libxslt, I guess they
> > should be
> > installed somewhere else.
>
> not true.  these both belong in /opt/gnome.
>

That's what I did, however I saw them included with KDE that's where my
doubts originate.

> > - I couldn't (actually didn't:)) figure out the way Mozilla was
> > originally
> > built in Slackware, so I just put it into /usr/local/mozilla, don't know
> > if
> > it's wrong or not.
>
> it shouldn't hurt, but make sure you've removed the original mozilla
> package.  if you want to build it just like slackware does, get the rpm
> spec file & co from the sources cd and use the build script to build the
> rpms.  you can either install it via rpm or, like me, comment out the
> line in the spec file which deletes the build directory
> "/var/tmp/mozilla-root" and just type "cp -r /var/tmp/mozilla-root/opt
> /" to overwrite your old mozilla with the new one.
>

Eventually I uninstalled the original mozilla package and compiled my just
as I said.
I just don't get what rpms are you talking about? Why should I build one?

Boris

> > I want to point out that I did this not for the sake of upgrade, just
> > wanted
> > to take a look at Evolution which  always depends on the most current
> > GNOME
> > libraries.
> >
> > It would certainly be nice to see latest GNOME stuff in
> > Slackware-Current.
>
> agreed :)
>
> Todd
>