On 3/24/06, Srikanth R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks David. > > I have tried GnomeMeeting which was installed using yast. > > Its due to my academic curiosity that I am interested to compile the > source and I am trying to figure out the how I could go out doing that > as I am new to the open source world. > > I tried to compile ekiga but unfortunately was not able to achieve the > same that prompted me to look into Gnome Meeting Version 1.2.2 as my > understanding was that the dependencies would be in the system. > > Would like to thank every one in the group, for the pain taken to help > me achieve the same. > > Expecting your continued support
I know some on this list consider it off-topic to use the ekiga community for 'learning linux' - so someone please shout if you want this useful discussion taken elsewhere. The dependencies for compilation are in the system *but* they may not be installed. Unfortunately gnome applications are a few steps up the Linux learning curve in terms of compiling from source. You will find that the experts in compiling from sources will only be interested in ekiga, and will only have time for fairly terse help (you will see from the archive that they kindly helped me a couple of weeks ago.) You and I need to understand that their main focus is in helping package maintainers compile good binary packages for further distribution. If you want to 'learn Linux' and try compiling something with a very clean configure script and few dependencies, you will not learn much, so at some point you are going to meet something like a complex gnome application with a large number of dependencies. As you will have seen, pwlib and openh323 were quite easy and boring to compile and install. However it seems you compiled pwlib without openldap support - as pointed out by Julian in an earlier mail - that may be why the gnomemeeting compile was unhappy. Also your openldap compilition _may_ not have installed the correct libraries in the correct place. Do you know that after installing libraries in Linux, you should run ldconfig as root? As well as libraries you need header files. Again this are in your SuSE 10 system but may not be installed. Usually you need to search yast for packages ending with -devel. I installed several dozen (for gtk gnome eveolution-data-server openldap and more) before I was able to compile ekiga. Good luck! _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
