Subject: Re: newbie build problem on debian
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 18:22:01 CST
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:06:40AM +0100, Andreas Reuleaux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to this list and abiword development/building.
> I faced some problems when trying to build from the cvs source
> (my system is Debian 2.2r0 "Potato" (from August 2000).
>
> This is what I did as described on the build web page:
>
> * checked out the cvs source
>
> * cd'ed to abi directory
>
> * and typed make
> (just make, by the way how does the make get to know my system
> without a (auto)configure step?)
Well, it can tell that you are running linux, and then uses a
linux makefile, but apart from that, AbiWord includes almost
entirely portable code, so we don't have to worry.
>
> Now my whole terminal screen is full of unreadable rubbish. There
> seems to be some control char somewhere in the Makefiles that makes my
> terminal switch. I have learned somewhere that (blindly) typing cat
> /bin/ls is a cure and in fact it switches my terminal back - I forgot
> where I have learned that trick. Obviously this is not a solution.
>
I've seen this happen before. If you are building with ABI_OPT_GNOME=1,
you might want to try the straight GTK build.
> There is another problem: When reading the first lines of the
> make output - the few that are still readable - I see this:
>
> make[1]: gtk-config: Command not found
>
> Which debian pkgs am I missing? This is the gtk related stuff
> currently installed on my system:
>
> reuleaux@mousehouse (~) >dpkg -l | grep gtk
> ii libgnorbagtk0 1.0.56-3 Gnome CORBA services (Gtk bindings)
> ii libgtk1.2 1.2.7-1 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
> ii libgtk1.2-dev 1.2.7-1 Development files for the GIMP Toolkit
> ii libgtkxmhtml1 1.0.56-3 The Gnome gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget
> ii libobgtk1 1.0.40-2 Objective-C - Gtk bindings
> ii python-gtk 0.6.3-5 GTK support module for Python.
> ii rep-gtk 0.7-1 GTK binding for librep
> reuleaux@mousehouse (~) >
libgtk1.2-dev contains /usr/bin/gtk-config, at least on my system
(I run woody). Do you have that binary there? If so, it's probably
a path problem.
sam th
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