On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:26:18AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote: >At least i'm not alone in this frustration. I actually submitted a bug to >the XFCE project on sf.net about this, and Olivier offered some >suggestions, but when they failed to fix it, he basically told me that my >system was broken.
Something is not being built on your system, or is being placed in the wrong directory by the install process. The trick is to examine the output of the build process to see where the files are going. Xfce wants to install with prefix=/usr, not /usr/local, and it may be a bit tricky to get things right when moving that. I've found that building RPMS is much easier using the Caldera mkLists macro and perl script since it allows one to build files used in the ``%files'' section rather than manually listing them. I'm using this with RPM on non-Caldera systems including Red Hat, Cobalt (bastardized Red Hat), SCO/Caldera OpenServer, and Apple OS X (darwin). One of the biggest advantages is that mkLists uses regular expressions to select which package files go in and can also add prefixes like %config based on regular expressions. Overall it speeds the process considerably. I spent several hours over the last two days getting xfce up and running on OS X which required substantial tweaking to the autoconf and libtool pieces including manually running ``./ltconfig ltmain.sh'' to get a working local libtool script. The final working SRPMS is available from our ftp site: ftp://ftp.celestial.com/pub/SRPMS/xfce-3.8.14c-3.src.rpm Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. -- Thomas Sowell _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.