Re: Help with compiling bonobo please.

[Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>]

>>>>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:43:58 +0900, Antony Stace <antony@example.com> said:

    AS> Hi Folks
    AS> I just downloaded bonobo-0.26 and am having problems installing it.  I
    AS> unpacked it and ran the configure script and got the error

    AS> [snip]
    AS> checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
    AS> checking for dcgettext... yes
    AS> checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
    AS> checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
    AS> checking for catalogs to be installed...  ca da de el en_GB es fi fr
    AS> ga gl hu it ja ko nl no pl pt_BR ro ru sl sv uk wa tr
    AS> checking ORBit version... 0.5.1
    AS> configure: error: ORBit 0.5.3 or later required   -(1)
    AS> [snip]

    AS> seeing this error I then proceeded to download version 5.4 of ORBit,
    AS> I unpacked this, compiled it and then ran make install.  A swag of new
    AS> files ended up in /usr/local in various places.  I then ran  the
    AS> configure script for bonobo again only to get the same error (1)
    AS> again.  It seems that the bonobo configure script is looking at

    AS> /usr/bin/orbit-config

    AS> to get the version number of bonobo.  I Am not sure what to do as I
                                     ^^^^^^
                                (ORBit, I assume)

Do

# ln -s /usr/local/bin/orbit-config /usr/bin/orbit-config

and try to run bonobo configure again.

Cheers,
Viktor