Re: Building Abiword 2.0 from source on Solaris without Gnome

From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 09:29:24 EDT

  • Next message: Pete Young: "Re: Building Abiword 2.0 from source on Solaris without Gnome"

    > Hi,
    >
    > I wanted to build Abiword 2.0 on a Solaris 8 system with no Gnome.
    >
    > Besides Glib/GTK+, which is mentioned in the documentation, the list of
    > dependencies is seemingly endless. So far:
    >
    > gmodule-2.0
    > gnome-vfs-2.0
    > libbonobo-2.0
    > gconf-2.0
    > libgnome-2.0
    > libgnomeui
    > fontconfig
    > gucharmap
    > libglade
    > libxml2
    >
    > and there are probably others looming around the corner.
    >
    > This is proving a little soul-destroying. Is there another way, or do I
    > have to just sit here recursively discovering dependencies, finding
    > source, configure/make/make makinstall, lather rinse repeat?
    >

    As others have pointed out, you can get ahead by not using the GNOME build.

    But anyway, why not just install a GNOME desktop on solaris? Isn't it just
    one nice big download from SUN? (After all the money and developer time
    they've put into GNOME I'd have thought it would be easy.)

    In addition to make good use of AbiWord-2.0 you should use a X11 server
    with Xrender extensions (like Xfree86- 4.3). I dunno what SUN ships on
    it's workstations these days.

    Cheers

    Martin
    > Regards,
    >
    > Pete
    >
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