Re: Problem on Gnome-0.30 panel

[Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>]

Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw> writes:

> Dear Debian users,
> 
> I have a question on the Gnome-0.30 panel. Since now I use hamm and haven't
> upgrade to slink, so I try to get all the necessary source of Gnome and
> other libs from the slink source tree and use dpkg-source, dpkg-buildpackage
> to build them. All seems OK, except the following problems:
> 
> 1. The final deb packages don't have the "panel" program. I have traced
>    the steps when making gnome-core-0.30, but it seems that the sub-dir
>    panel/ in it doesn't make. When I go to that directory and type "make",
>    it gives the error message:
> 
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I../intl -I../intl 
>  -DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -I/usr/include -I/usr/include 
>  -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/X11R6/include 
>  -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -g -O2
> 
>  -Wall -Wp,-MD,.deps/orbit-applet-lib.p -c -fPIC -DPIC orbit-applet-lib.c
> orbit-applet-lib.c:4: orb/orbit.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from orbit-applet-lib.c:19:
> gnome-panel.h:7: orb/orbit.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [orbit-applet-lib.lo] Error 1

You need to install orbit and orbit-dev.

> 2. This is a minor question. Originally my system has installed
>    "libjpeg6a_6a-11" package, but to make gnome, it seems that I should
>    install "libjpeg62" package. So I also build the
> 
>         libjpeg-progs_6b-1.2_i386.deb
>         libjpeg62-dev_6b-1.2_i386.deb
>         libjpeg62_6b-1.2_i386.deb
> 
>    and installed all of them. To install libjpeg62-dev ...., I should
>    remove the package "libjpegg-dev" because of the conflict problem.
>    Now I start to build others, I often encounter the warning message:
> 
> ld: warning: libjpeg.so.6a, needed by /usr/lib/libtiff.so, may conflict with 
> libjpeg.so.62
> 
> 
>    Does it will affect the final result?

It might, or it might not.  I've heard there are some
incompatibilities that could cause you to have some segfaults if you
mix the two together.

Cheers,

 - Jim