Observations on 3.8.16

[Olivier Fourdan]

Rich,

>   After the first upgrade from 3.7.1 to 3.8.16, I re-installed the .src.rpm.
> Then, in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS I made the following changes to xfce.spec:
> 
> %build
> if [ ! -f configure ]; then
>   ./autogen.sh --prefix=%{prefix} --datadir=%{datadir}
> --sysconfdir=%{confdir} \
>   --disable-dt --enable-gtk-engine=%{gtkengines} --disable-xft \
>   --enable-gdm --with-gdm-prefix=%{gdmdata} --enable-old-style
> else
>   ./configure --prefix=%{prefix} --datadir=%{datadir}
> --sysconfdir=%{confdir} \
>   --disable-dt --enable-gtk-engine=%{gtkengines} --disable-xft \
>   --enable-gdm --with-gdm-prefix=%{gdmdata} --enable-old-style
> fi
> make

After changing the spec file, you must do a "./autogen.sh && make rpm"
to actually build the RPM with that modified spec file.

Once built, simply install your newly created rpm

Cheers,
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Olivier               <fourdan at xfce.org>            http://www.xfce.org
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