[sbopkg-users] fox-toolkit

slakmagik slakmagik at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 19:43:35 UTC 2011


On 2011-07-08 (Fri) 15:42:19 [-0400], slakmagik wrote:
> On 2011-07-08 (Fri) 11:26:29 [-0700], Arthur wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm new to this mailing list and to slackware. I tried to install  
> > gogglesmm which has fox-toolkit as a dependency. The fox-toolkit has the  
> > wrong url so I built version 1.6.43 from source. Then I went back to  
> > sbopkg and installed xfe, no problem, but when I try to build gogglesmm  
> > from sbopkg, it seems that gogglesmm can't find fox-toolkit. I'm not  
> > very experienced with this stuff so any help would be appreciated.
> >
> 
> Welcome.
> 
> In a scenario like that, you should edit the SlackBuild and .info file
> (which can be done via sbopkg's 'Custom' menu item or however you'd
> like).

Edit those files to reflect the proper download url, I mean - sorry
about that.

> Then build as usual. However, what you did should also work if you
> edit gogglesm's SlackBuild and add --fox-prefix=/usr/local (assuming
> that where your fox version went - sbo/sbopkg would make sure it went to
> /usr. gogglesm appears to have a handrolled build process which doesn't
> really work properly and requires the flag.


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