Re: installation rant (ignore if in bad mood)

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

On 07/12/09 10:53, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> <rant on>
>
> Folks, this will be another rant about general user experience.
>
> I consider myself computer literate so compiling from source is never
> a problem as long as ./configure; make; make install works. If not, I
> consider the software crappy. I tried installing the latest sawfish
> bundle, in this order:
>
> librep 0.90.3
> rep-gtk 0.90.0
> sawfish 1.5.3
>
> First I wanted to install to a custom location using --prefix but that
> didn't work, see the other recent thread I started. So I thought,
> okay, let's not give sawfish developers a hard time, let's just
> install to the default locations. So I did
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> on librep. All good. Then to rep-gtk: ./configure fails with
>
> checking for LIBREP... no
> configure: error: can not locate librep
>
> What?? Even if everything is installed to the default location
> configure can't find it. Why?

So what do you get for
    pkg-config --libs librep ?
I get "-lrep -lcrypt -lgmp -lm"

It's a while since I built the sawfish suite, but at time it worked fine 
on F11 using rpmbuild.
I _may_ have needed to add a tweak for x86_64, I'd have to look at the 
log files of the build.  F12 with the current versions will be done "RSN".