Re: Compilation Issue

["Andrew A. Adams" <aaa meiji ac jp>]

There was indeed a very old version of librep still hanging around (0.17). 
I:ve manually deleted as much of it as I could find, and also deleted the 
spurious gtk.a and types.a from /usr/lib64/rep/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gui/gt
k-2/ which were owned by no package.

I'm now getting a different compilation error when I try to build 
sawfish-1.6.3.1:

make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/sawfish-1.6.3.1/lisp/sawfish
/gtk'
REP_DL_LOAD_PATH=../../..//src/.libexec REP_GTK_DONT_INITIALIZE=1 
REP_LOAD_PATH=../../../lisp:../../..//lisp rep compiler -f compile-batch 
stock.jl
REP_DL_LOAD_PATH=../../..//src/.libexec REP_GTK_DONT_INITIALIZE=1 
REP_LOAD_PATH=../../../lisp:../../..//lisp rep compiler -f compile-batch 
widget.jl
error--> (file-error error--> "No such file or directory" 
"rep/lang/interpreter")(
file-error "No such file or directory" "rep/lang/interpreter")



I've downloaded and installed the rpm files provided by Kim Heino (thanks). 
I've also created a new user from scratch and window moving etc works with 
that user. However, the same error for compiling sawfish is occurring in both 
users if I try to run sawfish-config+

file-error "No such file or directory" "rep/lang/interpreter"

So, there still seems to be a problem of some sort with librep (listing the 
installed files from the rpms comes up with only:

/usr/lib64/rep/0.90.6/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/rep/vm/safe-interpreter.la
/usr/lib64/rep/0.90.6/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/rep/vm/safe-interpreter.so
/usr/share/rep/0.90.6/lisp/rep/lang/interpreter.jl
/usr/share/rep/0.90.6/lisp/rep/lang/interpreter.jlc

so there seem to be two problems. The first is figuring out what's messed up 
about my own username's settings which is preventing sawfish from working - 
I've tried removing my ~/.sawfish/custom but that makes no difference. The 
second is figuring out why sawfish-config can:t find the interpreter (and 
similarly why the compilation of sawfish fails - since sawfish isn's 
supported in a repository I:d like to be able to build my own versions of the 
latest releases in future).

So, any ideas what gnome or sawfish or other settings might be causing the 
sawfish window management problem? That's the urgent question.


-- 
Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa meiji ac jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/