A little help

[Erik Harrison]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:15:55 +0100, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
> > All right all. I've done some very minimal C hacking in my time and
> > now I need some help if someone has it.
> >
> > I've been hacking on the leafpad sources to make a text editor for
> > Xfce (or, more accurately, using the Xfce libs to fix some
> > deficiencies in leafpad). Now, I don't speak autotools or make, so
> > I've been hacking on the generated Makefile to get my modified sources
> > built, just while I get this thing together. Currently I get these
> > sorts of errors:
> >
> > In file included from leafpad.h:38,
> >                  from main.c:22:
> > /usr/include/xfce4/libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4.h:25:44:
> > libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4-config.h: No such file or directory
> > /usr/include/xfce4/libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4.h:27:33:
> > libxfcegui4/dialogs.h: No such file or directory
> > /usr/include/xfce4/libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4.h:28:35:
> > libxfcegui4/gtk_style.h: No such file or directory
> > /usr/include/xfce4/libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4.h:29:37:
> > libxfcegui4/gtktoxevent.h: No such file or directory
> > /usr/include/xfce4/libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4.h:30:31:
> > libxfcegui4/icons.h: No such file or directory
> > /usr/include/xfce4/libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4.h:31:33:
> > libxfcegui4/libnetk.h: No such file or directory
> > /usr/include/xfce4/libxfcegui4/libxfcegui4.h:32:41:
> > libxfcegui4/preview_filesel.h: No such file or directory
> >
> > and so on.
> >
> > Can someone give me a magic pill to resolve these temporarily, just so
> > I can test my changes? Clearly I'm setting a path wrong (or failing to
> > override a path built by leafpads configure). Any ideas?
> >
> 
> Quick and dirty and very temporary: check the output of 'pkg-config
> --libs --cflags libxfcegui4-1.0' and add that to the gcc lines in the
> makefile.
> 

Bingo! Just what I was looking for - something nice and hacky which
will both fix my problem in the short term, and encourage me to really
fix it in the longer term

> The real solution is to add the proper PKG_CONFIG_... directive to
> configure.ac and to adapt the Makefile.am's to use libxfcegui4's CFLAGS
> and link flags. For Xfce we use some autoconf magic coded by Benedikt --
> it's in the m4 directory of all xfce modules. Maybe you could have a
> look at that.

Thanks again.

> 
> > -Erik
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-- 
-Erik