From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 13: 5:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3781537B401; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D114943E6E; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:05:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812E132920; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:05:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:05:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Adam Weinberger Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: learning about ./configure and pkg-config In-Reply-To: <20021019073116.GI8122@vectors.cx> Message-ID: <20021020155906.T49006-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >> (10.18.2002 @ 1924 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.7K: << > > I downloaded the following from gnome.org "bonobo-activation-1.0.3.tgz" and > > gunzipped then untarred it and changed to the resulting directory. > > > > When I ran `./configure` it got through most checks fine, except for the > > pkg-config ones near the end. Here is the output: > > > > I couldn't find my ..../lib/pkgconfig directory or locate sample > > PKG_CONFIG_PATH statements on the web. Can someone clue me in please? > > Peter, unless you feel comfortable editing configure scripts (which is There's the rub. I don't feel comfortable editing configure scripts and my post did not have anything to do with them. When I don't feel comfortable about something, I read up on it or seek assistance and guidance from an online community. Are you discouraging my quest for knowledge? Besides, as far as I knew I -was- dealing with something very close to a port; The ./configure script would work as long as I had the dependencies and lib's etc. > where your PKG_CONFIG_PATH will be decided), you really ought to just > use the ports tree. /usr/ports/devel/bonobo-activation > - -Adam > adam@vectors.cx > adamw@FreeBSD.ORG Twice now I have gone through stages where I installed the entire ports tree then, in a flurry, have done an `rm -rf` to the entire thing. I find it more economical to just download one port at a time -- not that that has worked out for me yet either... After all, though, I don't even know for sure if I can "reinstall" bits and pieces and parts of Gnome 2; When I startx I get dialog boxes with errors about using xscreensaver (as root I suppose) and it being unable to launch gnome-panel and nautilus due to some bonobo-activation server problem! :( -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message