Re: Compiling Sawfish on Slackware 12.0

[jadamson partners org (Joel J. Adamson)]

"Andrea Vettorello" <andrea vettorello gmail com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Joel J. Adamson <jadamson partners org> wrote:
>>  Did I use the wrong value for "--with-libglade?"
>
> Sawfish themer is based on GTK+ 1.2 and was never ported to GTK+ 2.0
> or higher. If you want to build it (or attempt to build it ^__^) you
> probably need to install GTK+ 1.2 and an old version of libglade, on
> Debian libglade-xgettext is inside libglade0-dev  1:0.17-9 (version
> should be 0.17).

Okay: is there a way to build sawfish without the themer for real?  By
that I mean can I configure it so these errors won't be fatal?
Configure says that it's not building the themer, but this problem seems
to be connected to building themer!

>From the outside, the build system looks like a mess, I'm wondering if
>all the warnings that are thrown out are really harmless?. I know
>nothing about autoconf, but seems the time to look at documentation has
>come...

Perhaps: I hope I'm helping out Sawfish in general.

Thanks,
Joel

-- 
Joel J. Adamson
Biostatistician
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA  02114
(617) 643-1432
(303) 880-3109
Public key: http://pgp.mit.edu
http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj

The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only
for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential
and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other
use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or
entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this
information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983 and
properly dispose of this information.