[sbopkg-users] fox-toolkit

[Arthur]

On 07/08/2011 01:57 PM, Arthur wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 12:43 PM, slakmagik wrote:
>> 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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> I added --fox-prefix=/usr/local and I also tried 
> --fox-prefix=/usr/local/lib
>
> which results in the same failure. That is gogglemm can't find fox.
>
> My fox files are in /usr/local/lib
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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I was able to build it with --fox-prefix=/usr/local from the command line
not really sure why but thanks for the replies!