Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] gconf (the caveat of bleeding edge)

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 20:50, Guilhem Tardy wrote:
> 
> --- Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 19:58, Guilhem Tardy wrote:
> > >  
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Does it sound suspicious to you that I had to...
> > > > >   cp /opt/gnome/include/gconf/1/gconf/* /opt/gnome/include/gconf
> > > > > ?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, I think it means you used wrong prefix to compile it.
> 
> So, I guess copying the .h files to /opt/gnome/include/gconf made things simpler.
> 
> 
> Well, when I do ./configure --help , I must say that the explanation isn't enlightening. With just
> the configuration above, it doesn't complain. But if you think I should set gconf-prefix and
> --with-gconf-exec-prefix , I would appreciate to be told the meaning of "Prefix where GCONF is
> installed (optional)" and "Exec prefix" ?
> 

No idea :(

> > Why install in a separate prefix? Your installation is very complex
> > (mixed libs in different places) and that can only lead to problems.
> 
> That's the way that Suse73 installs... I only used the RPMs, nothing fancy. The way gconf handles
> its files, through 1/gconf/ subdirectories, was out-of-the-box.

Wow, then Suse is weird ;)

>  
> > Duplicates between what /opt/gnome/lib libraries need and what is
> > provided in /usr/lib/. Try to prevent duplicates between those 2
> > directories.
> 
> There are no libraries found in both directories.
> 
> I also noted a /opt/gnome/lib/GConf/1/ with the following:
> 
> rw-r--r--    1 root     root        28704 Nov 23 09:43 libgconfbackend-bdb.a
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          861 Nov 23 09:43 libgconfbackend-bdb.la*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        33111 Nov 23 09:43 libgconfbackend-bdb.so*
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        47460 Nov 23 09:42 libgconfbackend-xml.a
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          887 Nov 23 09:42 libgconfbackend-xml.la*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        49294 Nov 23 09:43 libgconfbackend-xml.so*
> 
> Is there a chance that those are not found at time of linking?
> 

Probably, but Im really out of ideas, sorry. Perhaps Stefan will help.
He is the author of the Suse packages.
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