Observations on 3.8.16

[Spyros Tsiolis]

Hello again,


>From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
>Reply-To: xfce at moongroup.com
>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
>
> > This is something that bugged me for a long time. If the user gets the
> > source tarball, he can use :
> >
> > ./configure --enable-old-style [some other options here] and the system
> > will come up with the wonderfull coloured workspace buttons .
>
>   So, must '--enable-old-style' be the first option passed to autoconf?

Not nessessarily, no. I think you got that one right.


> > Also, something else I wrote is the fact that you have to hunt down
> > older versions of the executables (xfwm, startxfce etc.) and replace
> > them with the newlly compiled one. Most of the time, they will be
> > sitting on /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin
>
>   I've been Freshening by Red Hat packages. Now, I get the source rpm and
>rebuild that. I can change the configure options in the spec file.
>
>Rich

You could do that; You could also do :

. find / -name "xf*" -print | more

. Right down all the relevant places with the relevant executables

. Check the creation dates

. Replace old creation date execs with new ones by copying them over
  to their respective places

As for freshening rpms, I too, am an rpm junkie but I wouldn't wholely
rely on the rpm way. After all there's nothing better than a good
old bashing at the shell term !! :-)

It worked for me anyway. I had the same prob a couple of days ago.


Hope this helps,

s.


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