xfce4 on old distros [was: (no subject)]

[Brian J. Tarricone]

i really wouldn't recommend trying to retrofit an old pre-gtk2 distro 
with the required libs and xfce4.  there are a bunch of annoying issues 
related to updating xfree86, xft, fontconfig, etc.  getting this to work 
right is a bit of a hit-or-miss situation, and upgrading to a more 
recent distro would take a lot less time and hassle.

at any rate, rh7.x isn't supported by redhat anymore, and they aren't 
releasing things like security updates, so i'd suggest upgrading to 
fedora (fedora core 1 is out, fedora core 2 should be our within a week 
i think).

    -brian

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cphillips at phillipsandson.com wrote:

>I would like to begin using the 4.x version of XFCE.  However, I cannot get it
>to compile because my package config installation is bad.  I'm especially having
>trouble since there are so many external dependencies on other libraries.  Is it
>possible and would someone please perform a statically linked compiled binary
>for XFCE?  I need all required libraries statically linked (e.g., GTK, libxml2,
>libdbh, etc.).  I have Red Hat 7.2 so I can't use the RPMs on the Sourceforge site.
>
>It looks like the XFCE developers have done some outstanding work and I'm eager
>to replace my 3.x version of XFCE.
>
>I don't know if a statically linked compile would work well for XFCE, but if so
>I would be willing to pay someone a little money for their time.
>
>Thanks in advance.
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