Re: [Nautilus-list] Building 0.1 snapshot on machines without RPM 3.0.3

[Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro eazel com>]

"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> It is difficult to build nautilus on a machine that does not have
> RPM.  There are several problems:
> 
> 1) The RPM dependency is not mentioned in the docs
> 2) The configure script does not check for the needed RPM libraries
> 3) Due to Red Hat stupidity, nautilus can't be compiled against RPM 3.0.4
> 
> I suggest making the rpm-viewer component an optional item, with a switch
> to configure such as --without-rpm.  I don't have time to create a patch
> for this, but I wanted to suggest it.
> 
> Regards,
> Jeffrey Baker
> p.s. don't make us Slackware users feel like second-class citizens!
> 

It would be easy to make this happen.  In fact, we've always planned to
do things this way.  That's why the rpm viewer is a component to begin
with.

The lack of a configure check and WITH_RPM define is just a bug:

http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567

thanks

-re