Re: CVS Location

["Jason M. Felice" <jfelice@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:07:28PM -0500, Scott Klement wrote:
> 
> I wish I knew more about autoconf & automake...  :(    (Where *IS* Jay
> Felice, anyway? Did he really walk off the edge of the earth?)

Bah, in the middle of thirty-five different things.  *sigh*

> 
> My best guess (and this is purely a guess) is this:
> 
> 1) You need to first install glib w/development libraries.  (On FreeBSD
>      glib vs glib-devel doesn't appear to exist, so I didn't know
>      about this)

On (90% ?) of RPM-based systems, header files and static libraries are in
a *-devel RPM.

> 
> 2) Install autoconf & automake from source -- not precompiled versions --
>      so that they can detect glib on your system, and compile support
>      for it into autoconf/automake.   (You should be able to get the
>      source from www.gnu.org)

I doubt this is necessary.

> 
> I don't have a spare machine to set-up SuSE on to try this out, so
> please give it a try and tell me if it works.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 May 2001, Duane Kehoe wrote:
> 
> > Probably a stupid question but where would one get the this development
> > package?  According to the link previously given 
> > 
> > http://cvs.cleveland.lug.net/mail-archives/tn5250/200104/msg00013.html
> > 
> > the version should be alright but I am having the same error.  Below is
> > the glib package description on my SuSE box
> > 
> > Name        : glib                         Relocations: (not
> > relocateable)
> > Version     : 1.2.8                             Vendor: SuSE GmbH,
> > Nuernberg,
> > Germany
> > Release     : 87                            Build Date: Fri 19 Jan 2001
> > 02:31:

Mike was speaking of glib-devel:
rpm -qi glib-devel || find /mnt/cdrom -name "glib-devel-*.rpm" -exec rpm -ivh 
{} \;

;-)

> > 
> > Michael Madore wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > You will also need the development package for GLIB.
> > 
> k
> 

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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