a minor linking problem for gnomeicu revisited

["James E Jurach Jr." <muaddib arrakis erf net>]

Jeremy, et al

I've had a little bit of time to look more deeply into the problem, and to
rebuild all the gnome components about a dozen more times each on a couple
of different machines. (!!)

gnomeicu's "autogen.sh" constructs "aclocal.m4" from files in its "macros"
directory.  specifically "macros/gnome.m4" contains definitions for
GNOME_LIBS, GNOMEUI_LIBS, GNOMEGNORBA_LIBS, etc. by way of "gnome-config".

I'm just starting, and this system is very complex if not cunning to deal
with this complexity.. I don't know which piece is responsible for which
function, but my best guess is `gnome-config --libs-only-l gnomeui` should
return a list of gcc arguments which includes "-lpanel_applet", and it is
not.

Again, as mentioned in my first message which is appended below, the
problems I'm seeing when I try to build gnomeicu against the current CVS
tree are several undefined references to applet_widget_*, which are defined
in libpanel_applet.*, which is in turn defined in gnome-core..

Hmm.  Maybe if I build gnome-libs AFTER I build gnome-core, gnome-config
will be properly set up to know about libpanel_applet.. but I don't think
gnome-core will build without gnome-libs..  How many times should we
rebuild each of these directories?  Should gnome-config access a database of
some kind that each contributing component can modify?  or should gnomeicu
and similar applications access a separate "gnome-core-config" ?

I think I've had much success in building GNOME from CVS, but I've run into
and had to figure out several hurdles.  for instance, apparently without an
"mrproper" target, how can I get rid of automake-generated files like
"configure" and "install-sh"?  When I started to build from CVS into /opt
before removing the RedHat-installed libraries, I found myself in a state
where I could not even make the "clean" target, and I had to delete these
symlinks by hand.

Keep up the great work!  Keep fighting the good fight!  :)

james

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To: Jeremy Wise <jwise@pathwaynet.com>
Subject: a minor linking problem for gnomeicu
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:44:37 -0600
From: "James E Jurach Jr." <muaddib@arrakis.erf.net>

Jeremy,

I'm not sure how to fix this, and I just encountered this error after
attempting a build from CVS.

There are several functions that are not defined during the final link
step for gnomeicu, and grep(1) found them in libpanel_applet.a.  So,
cutting and pasting the link line and adding -lpanel_applet is sufficient
to complete the build.  I know the Makefiles are generated, so it's unclear
to me if autogen.sh is supposed to find this library or what.

i hope this helps.

james

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