error compiling xffm

[Foxy]

Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Foxy wrote:
>
>   
>> I've got another problem. Since xfce 4.3.0svn made its way to Ubuntu
>> Dapper I used it from repositories. However, xffm is not there, so I
>> compiled it from svn. Now I cannot figure out how to get xffm plugin in
>> mcs manager to be able to configure it.
>>
>> I've got the following packages installed:
>>
>> libxfce4mcs-client3
>> libxfce4mcs-dev
>> libxfce4mcs-manager3
>> xfce4-mcs-manager
>> xfce4-mcs-manager-dev
>> xfce4-mcs-plugins
>>
>> I wonder which one  may need to reinstall to get xffm mcs plugin? I have
>> already tried obvious xfce4-mcs-plugins but no avail.
>>     
>
> The xffm mcs plugin is build with xffm. In order for mcs manager to load 
> it, xffm must be build with the same prefix as the mcs manager. If your 
> prefix is /usr/local, then at /usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins you should 
> have:
>
> libxffmsettings.la  libxffmsettings.so
>
> along with other plugins. None the less, xffm will not build the plugin if 
> libxfce4mcs-client-1.0 is not found or is < 4.2.0.
>
> A reason for not finding it is that the PKG_CONFIG_PATH is pointing 
> somewhere else, or that the package name has changed.
>
> You can also set the environment variables that the mcs manager 
> changes by exporting them from your .xinitrc file.
>
> Look in xffm/config.h to see if HAVE_LIBXFCE4MCS_CLIENT is defined or not.
>
> regards,
>
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>   
thanks a lot! I've recompiled xffm with /usr prefix and the plugin is 
now in place....