Panel/Taskbar idea: embarrassingly basic newbie question

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:57, Marv Boyes wrote:
> Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 15:51, Marv Boyes wrote:
> >
> >>This looks exactly like what I've been wanting for my own setup. My 
> >>trouble is that I've never been able to successfully compile and install 
> >>anything (xfce-related or otherwise) from source on my Mandrake 9.2 
> >>machine.
> >>
> >>I almost hate to have to ask-- but can anyone tell me _where_ I ought to 
> >>unpack this tarball before trying to compile and install it?
> >
> > 
> > 
> > Having lived in the Mandrake world for the past two years, I know the
> > feeling; I've had to manually upgrade my automake, autoconf, make,
> > aclocal and the likes in order to compile progs properly; now that I'm
> > on 10.0 OE it's a bit easier; but overall, what I do is I unpack and
> > compile things under the /usr/src directory and then always use the
> > settings:
> > 
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr
> > 
> 
> So I'm guessing, based on what you've said here and what I've read on 
> the Goodies page, that I'll want the xfce4-taskbar-plugin directory in 
> /usr/src, and my command ought to look like this:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
> 
> No?
> 
> Next question: assuming this utterly fails to work (I hate to be such a 
> fatalist; but like I said, compiling & installing from source just 
> doesn't work for me...), is there any easy way to clean up the mess left 
> behind?
> 
> Thanks much; you folks are the greatest.
> 
> Marv

Alright - after doing some spying on how Mandrake 10.0 OE put things
hither thither and yon, I have to detract that simple set of
instructions; I'm trying to work out what needs go where and then what
options need to be passed to the configuration script(s); apparently,
MDK in it's great vision, has put the binaries in /usr/bin, the libs in
/usr/libs/xfce4 and the panel-plugins themselves in
/usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins

In not being an expert, I have to muck around and get all the options
right (feel free for anyone to step in with a hint or two - as when I
get beyond the --prefix=/usr bit, that's it for me...)

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