Re: building libs enroute to latest gnumeric

[Michael George <george mutualdata com>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:14:37PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> If you use garnome-0.18.x you're playing in gnome-2.2 land be wary.
> Using a mix of 2.0 and 2.2 will get tricky.  Some thing like gedit
> will want gnome-print head, while gnumeric doesn't.  You're best bet
> would be garnome 0.17.x with custom libgsf and gnumeric.
>
> If you go with cvs for the gnome-print be sure to use the
> gnome-2-0 branches.  HEAD has some big changes.
>
> eg
>     cvs co -r gnome-2-0 libgnomeprint

Oh, I forgot that I took your recommendation and I *am* running 0.17.  You'd
said that that with the libgsf library would be good for testing gnumeric
1.11...

I'll refetch the libgnomeprint* files...

> When building from cvs you run 'autogen.sh' rather than configure.
> It has exactly the same calling conventions and environment, but
> handles the generation of the config scripts.
>  
> You'll need to do the same thing with any module you pull from cvs.

Good to know, thanks!  I'll see if I can get to that tomorrow...

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