What is the build order of Xfce 4.2.2 from source?

Justin Elshadii at carolina.rr.com
Sun Jun 26 19:58:15 CEST 2005


Justin wrote:

>Brett wrote:
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>>Am trying to give a Xfce a try for the first time. The docs on the web
>>site say to build in this order:
>>  1. xfce4-dev-tools
>>  2. libxfce4util
>>  3. libxfcegui4
>>  4. libxfce4mcs
>>  5. xfce-mcs-manager
>>  6. all other modules (you have to install xfce4 panel before compiling
>>panel plugins).
>>
>>But the source does not include xfce4-dev-tools. So thinking that this was
>>just an out of date document I just tried to build the minimum without the
>>xfce4-dev-tools:
>>  1. libxfce4util
>>  2. libxfcegui4
>>  3. libxfce4mcs
>>  4. xfce-mcs-manager
>>
>>It all seemed to build fine but the startxfce4 binary was not built. After
>>some investigation I see that the xfce-utils source has this so I built
>>that next. But running startxfce4 quits with some error about a missing
>>font as far as I can tell. But just to be sure what is the correct build
>>order or where can I find the xfce4-dev-tools source if it still exists?
>>Is the xfce-utils now the replacement for the xfce4-dev-tools? Help.
>>
>>TIA,
>>Brett
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>http://peterhost.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xfce/xfce4-4.2.2-installer.bin
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that link was not exactly what I wanted to say but this one is:

http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=42

this makes life simpler, for the installer hahahaha

Justin






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