Re: Compiling questions

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 à 21:51 -0400, john bellone jr a écrit :
> I am a student at New Jersey Institute of Technology and I have been
> looking into using Gnumeric to load large data sets of files. I
> figured the best way to get familiar with the code was to compile it.
> I am running (nearly) a stock Fedora 8 setup and have been running
> into some compilation issues. It seems to have to due with the
> LIB_SPREADSHEETS dependencies. 
>
> Sorry if I am a little incoherent - running on ten hours of work
> behind a monitor and then another four diagnosing a problem with X11.
> I am just going to briefly post the output of the ./configure attempt.
> I'm sure you have seen this before so I thank you for your patience. I
> have been reading up on your project for the past couple of days,
> looking through source code and taking notes on how you have designed
> the application.
>
> The first problems are rising from:
> ./configure: line 21813: doltcompile: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 21816: doltcompile: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 21838: doltcompile: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 21851: doltcompile: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 21872: doltcompile: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 21879: doltcompile: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 21893: doltcompile: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 21898: doltcompile: Permission denied

Looks like you are working in a read-only directory or something like
that.

> And then the rest of the problems:
> checking for LIBSPREADSHEET... configure: error: Package requirements
> (
>         libgoffice-0.8          >= 0.7.1
>         libgsf-1                >= 1.14.9
>         libxml-2.0              >= 2.4.12
>  
>         libglade-2.0            >= 2.3.6
>         gtk+-2.0                >= 2.10.0
>  
>         libgnomeui-2.0          >= 2.0.0
>         gconf-2.0
>         libbonobo-2.0           >= 2.2.0
> ) were not met:
>
> No package 'libgoffice-0.8' found
> Requested 'libgsf-1 >= 1.14.9' but version of libgsf-1 is 1.14.7

You must first compile and install the latest libgsf and goffice
versions.

> I have used yum to download goffice-devel and attempted to download
> the above dependences and it seems that none of the ones are coming
> off that above list. 
>
> Thanks a bunch, I hope to be able to contribute if possible,
> John Bellone
> jvb4 njit edu

If you intend to contribute, I'd suggest to use the code from the svn
repository.

Regards,
Jean