Installing GTK Deletes XFce?

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at moongroup.com
Fri Aug 8 19:29:40 CEST 2003


Op vr 08-08-2003, om 18:55 schreef Lane P. Lester:
...
> 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

Oops, my mistake. Thanks for finding it ;-) It has been fixed in CVS.

> 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.
> 

The above problem, means the panel didn't get build.

> 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?
> 

If it breaks, you get to keep the pieces ;-) CVS is not meant for casual
use. However, if it builds and installs fine, there is a good chance it
will work well enough.

	Jasper





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