Problems compiling and building xfce-3.8.18 on Mandrake 9.1

Tue Jul 1 08:20:32 CEST 2003

Hi there,

Sounds like ld.so.conf is my source of headaches. I haven't tried adding 
paths
to libs to ld.so.conf.
So that's another thing I have to do.

Thanks very much for your feedback.

Spyros

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>On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:00, Anders Lind wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:54:40 +0000
> > "Spyros Tsiolis" <spytsi at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello list,
> > > Here we go again.
> > > I 've just upgraded to Mandrake 9.1. Looks ok. Not very happy with it.
>
><WHACK>
>
> > I remember seeing something similiar on the Mandrake mailinglist but not 
>concerning XFCE though, but in that case I seem to recall that pygtk needed 
>to be installed for some reason as well, don't ask me why.....this is only 
>taken from my memory though, but I think this was the case. Otherwise you 
>can always download the RPM and install that...personally I prefer not to 
>do something like that
> > Cheers
> > Anders
>
>One of the things that I've found out about with Mandrake is that you're
>going to want to have as many of the GTK related dev RPM's loaded - and
>as well, I also found that by including particular lib paths in my
>/etc/ld.so.conf and re-running ldconfig made for better compiling all
>around - here's what my /etc/ld.so.conf looks  like:
>
>/usr/lib
>/usr/local/lib
>/usr/local/lib/xfce4
>/usr/X11R6/lib
>/usr/lib/qt3/lib
>/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/post
>/usr/lib/wine
>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.3
>/usr/local/netscape
>/usr/lib/evolution/1.3
>/usr/lib/kde3
>/usr/java/lib
>
>...and since then, all's been relatively happy...
>
>But I was lucky enough to not have to compile XFCE4 as one of the list
>members kindly built a set of RPM's for it! (Yeah, I'm lazy)
>
>http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/
>
>...that made it all the more easy...
>
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