Re: excel.la has no valid dlname?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:50:25AM -0400, John McGinn wrote:
> Jody Goldberg writes:
> >    --enable-static
> > should not be necessary
>
> > hmm, and no combos of dirs in GNOME_PATH will fix it ?
>
> Never tried setting that as an environment. Is that something that Gnome
> sets up when you get into it? I'm not going to be running Gnome, I just
> want the ability to run Gnumeric under a regular X Window Manager. That is
> possible, isn't it?
That is an environment variable used by gnomeConf to find things
during the configure process.  It has no run time effect at all.
You can easily run gnumeric under any desktop environment you'd
like.
 
> > You're starting to enter the rhelm of libtool magic.  If removing
> > the --enable-static does not fix it there is something very odd with
> > your system.
>
> Well, I tried without the --enable-static, and it still didn't work. What
> sort of "odd" things should I look for?
I have no idea.  You're several sigmas out there...  Lets take a
different approach here.  Rather than trying to fix this directly
just edit the .la file to make the plugin name excel.so.  Lets see
if that sort of low tech approach will work.