Re: [gentoo-dev] merging gaim was even worse than pan

[Mikael Hallendal]

ons 2001-10-10 klockan 21.04 skrev Gold is Heavy:
> Hi Gentoo Hackers,

Hi!

You have gnome in your USE-variables (in /etc/make.conf), that's why
gnome-support is built. If you don't want GNOME-support, remove gnome
from your use-variables.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal
>
> I've read Martin's post, and I am going to follow Martin's suggestions later.
>
> But before I followed Martin's suggestions, I wanted to try to emerge one
> more thing that I really can't live without -- gaim.  The reason for this is
> simple: I feel I should be able to emerge gnome apps without actually
> emerging gnome itself.  There might be technical reasons why this could be
> impossible, but I am 95% sure that it should be possible to compile and use
> gaim without gnome.  So I did:
>
> emerge net-im/gaim
>
> And what followed was pretty uneventful, except the following bits:
>
> ---
> config.status: creating po/Makefile
>
> gaim 0.45
>
> Allow Multiple Connections.. : yes
> Build Protocol Plugins...... : yes
> Protocols to link statically : oscar toc
>
> Build with GNOME bits....... : yes
> Use GdkPixbuf for Icons..... : yes
> Build as GNOME applet....... : yes
>
> Build with Plugin support... : yes
> Build with Perl support..... : yes
>
> Use XScreenSaver Extension.. : yes
>
> Build with ESD.............. : yes
> Build with NAS.............. : no
> Build with ArtsC............ : yes
>
> Print debugging messages.... : no
>
> Gaim will be installed in /usr/bin.
>
> configure complete, now type 'make'
> ---
>
> Ok, here we see that config is totally wrong.  I don't want 'GNOME bits' and
> I don't want to build gaim as 'GNOME applet' as I have no intention of
> running GNOME (at least not soon).
>
> So, it finishes compiling without any errors, and now I have useless
> /usr/bin/gaim_applet.  Obviously if I try to run it, it gives me a corba
> error, and although I am sure it's pointless, I will cut and paste the error
> for the sake of completeness:
>
> ** WARNING **: file applet-widget.c: line 955: Corba Exception: type = 2 exid
> = IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
>
> For the sake of completeness, here is my USE variable, as defined in
> /etc/make.conf:
>
> USE="slang readline gpm berkdb gdbm tcpd pam libwww ssl
>     lm_sensors lvm pcmcia-cs alsa
>     nls mmx mitshm
>     esd lcms gif sdl vorbis ogg
>     gnome gtk X qt kde motif opengl mozilla
>     3dnow perl python tcltk java guile ruby mysql postgres ldap odbc
>     ggi fbcon svga tex bonobo nas qtmt aalib oss arts libg++"
>
> How I ended up with these USE flags is very simple.  I simply edited the
> default /etc/make.conf, and in addition to the USE flags already defined
> there, I have added every single flag from the "Other stable USE flags"
> section.
>
> If my USE flags are wrong, it may be a good idea to either change the rc6
> docs, or provide a better default /etc/make.conf, or maybe both?
>
> Offtopic: I just noticed something else, KMail fails to invoke ispell.
> Weird.  ispell is there and it is in my PATH.  I did start KMail from KDE
> application launcher instead of my shell, maybe that's the problem?
>
> --Leo
>
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Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden