Could someone **please** tell me what I need to do to make sure that Gnome is seen by the programs I compile (from tarball)? I run Gnome constantly but, for some reason, nothing I compile ever sees it. What directories do I need to put in the path (if this is the problem)? I assume this is a RedHat/SuSE issue (putting things in different places) but I could be wrong. I am running SuSE 7.1 and Gnome 1.4 (waiting impatiently for an upgrade...) Thanx.
I assume you mean that things like the CORBA interface don't work, which is normally down to a mis-set sysconfdir... Here's what I do to build Gnome apps on SuSE (which I do lots) ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome --sysconfdir=/etc/opt/gnome --any --other --options-you=need make su make install
Could someone **please** tell me what I need to do to make sure that Gnome is seen by the programs I compile (from tarball)? I run Gnome constantly but, for some reason, nothing I compile ever sees it. What directories do I need to put in the path (if this is the problem)?
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James Ogley wrote:
I assume you mean that things like the CORBA interface don't work, which is normally down to a mis-set sysconfdir...
Here's what I do to build Gnome apps on SuSE (which I do lots)
./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome --sysconfdir=/etc/opt/gnome --any --other --options-you=need
One more non-standard option required to build gnome-packages on SuSE: --localstatedir=/var/lib This rarely shows because only few programs apply localstatedir. Ralf
Oooh, I've never come across something that needed this when I was building it, which apps have you found that need it?
One more non-standard option required to build gnome-packages on SuSE: --localstatedir=/var/lib This rarely shows because only few programs apply localstatedir. -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle.Net james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 20 8731 3619
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James Ogley wrote:
Oooh, I've never come across something that needed this when I was building it, which apps have you found that need it?
Difficult to say and difficult to find out. The only SuSE-provided Gnome-package that I know which is writing to /var/lib is scrollkeeper (It seems to be using /var/lib/scrollkeeper). However, the actual problem is to find out which packages else access localstatedir for reading and try to share files under localstatedir. Probably, all packages trying to access systems' services are suspectable to doing so (MUAs, package-management (rpm) tools, configuration tools etc.) and explictily need to be checked for. A rough way to do so would be to examine SuSE's rpm.specs. But, .. from what I what I've seen there, SuSE does't always handle it consistently :( The exact way would be to analyse each packages' sources - Hardly applicable for casual installers :(
One more non-standard option required to build gnome-packages on SuSE: --localstatedir=/var/lib This rarely shows because only few programs apply localstatedir.
Another package that definitely accesses localstatedir is redcarpet :)) Ralf
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