Installing GTK Deletes XFce?

[Lane P. Lester]

edscott wilson garcia <edscott at prodigy.net.mx> wrote:
> Nestu's script is good. But I prefer a small perl version which I
> customize as I go along:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # remember to setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> # execute from ../../xfce-devel

Wow, that sure is a lot more convenient!

However, I found out the hard way that that last line above should be:
> # execute from ../xfce/xfce-devel
because the "middle" directory has to be xfce.

I got the following error during the process:

xfce/xfce-devel/xfce4...
./configure --enable-static=no && make uninstall && make install &&
make distclean
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `xfcerc.ca', needed by `all-am'. 
Stop. make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
xfce/xfce4-extras/xfce4-iconbox...
./configure --enable-static=no && make uninstall && make install &&
make distclean

I wonder if I'm going to be able to run xfce4 when I log on again...
Later: Yes, could. But I wonder what was the effect of the above
problem.

How do you preserve a working version of xfce in case your compilation
of a new one won't fly? Is everything in a single directory that can be
renamed to preserve it?

Lane
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Lane P. Lester / Madison County, Georgia
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