Re: debian etch upgrade broke the menu

[Christian Marillat <marillat free fr>]

Rafal Kolanski <rafalk cse unsw edu au> writes:

> rep is looking for files in /usr/lib/rep/i486-pc-linux-gnu, but sawfish 
> and keeps their files in i386-pc-linux-gnu
> I guess rep got compiled with the wrong directory setting?

This directory is provided by GCC. The path is i386 with GCC 3.3 and now
i486 with GCC 4.

The problem here is that we can't make rep depends on sawfish.

> Since rep doesn't print where on earth it's looking, it might actually 
> be looking in /usr/lib/rep/0.17/i486-pc-linux-gnu
>
> So ... I:
> moved all files from rep/i486-pc-linux into rep/0.17/i486-pc-linux 
> deleted rep/i486-pc-linux
> symlinked rep/0.17/i486-pc-linux to rep/i486-pc-linux
> symlinked rep/i386-pc-linux/* to rep/0.17/i486-pc-linux/*

Really a big hack. Instead install the sawfish and rep-gtk packages from
unstable.

Christian