Re: workspace issue with sawfish 1.5.0

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:49:28 -0400 (EDT)
> Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:
[snip]
> > root myrtle:/usr/src/sawfish# pkg-config --libs librep
> > -lrep -lcrypt -lgmp -lm
> >
> > With my installation it should say "-L/opt/sawfish/lib -lrep",
> > otherwise librep will not be found at compile time, as indeed it
> > was not when I tried to build sawfish.  The "-L/$prefix" bit can
> > be dropped if $prefix is a location automatically searched by the
> > linker, but not otherwise.  I had to hack the sawfish Makefile to
> > get a complete build.
>
> O.K. I've updated librep.pc.in
> What did you need to change in the Makefile? Provide a patch, if you
> think other people will benefit from that, too.

The only change I made in the Makefile was to add the linker
prefix for librep; if librep.pc is working right that won't be
needed.

Allin Cottrell