Stupid question compiling xfce4

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at moongroup.com
Thu Oct 9 17:08:05 CEST 2003


Op do 09-10-2003, om 16:57 schreef goudal at enseirb.fr:
> In the doc for compiling xfce4 it is said : run ./configure from the top source directory.
> 

Hmm, yes, this refers to the separate source tarballs.

> Ok I have downloaded the full tarball archive, found a bunch of tar.gz files in an src directory
> unpacked the tar.gz.
> 
> But what is « the top source directory » ? there is no configure in src directory.
> 

All of the subdirectories are the 'top source directory' for the
different modules.

> Btw is the dbh-1.0.5 the directory conaining libdbh source  or a module using libdbh ?
> 

It's libdbh.

> f.g.
> 
> P.S. Don't answer me : use the binary, there is no binary for solaris8 
> 

Cool ;-) Let us know if it works, complain if it doesn't.

	Jasper





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