[gobolinux-users] Freshen

[Tom Connell]

Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>
> I can't see anywhere that he states that the recipe is faulty, just that  
> configure doesn't find the required packages.
>   
Doesnt that imply a faulty recipe?
> I've looked at the configure script in gtk+ 2.10.11 (which is which  
> version you tried to compile, though you didn't mention it) and found the  
> pkg-config command responsible for locating the packages. Try running  
> 'pkg-config --exists --print-errors "glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0    atk >= 1.9.0     
> pango >= 1.12.0    cairo >= 1.2.0"' and see what output you get. If you  
> get nothing it means that pkg-config can find the requested version and  
> then something is wrong with the Compile environment, as it doesn't work  
> there. With this information we can try to pin down the problem more.
>   
That command returns nothing
> All recipes that are uploaded to the official store are compiled at least  
> once, which means that it works on at least one system. We can't give any  
> guarantees beyond that, so we like when users can help us find bugs in the  
> recipes. If you look at this particular recipe you can see that I have  
> created it, and all those recipes are tested with ChrootCompile (an extra  
> clean environment), so those recipes should be extra stable.
>   
Ok, but it doesnt work in my system???? My system is probably in an 
indeterminate state due to recent problems (just search for recent posts 
from me)so that may be a factor! Micheal and Lucas have been trying to 
help me sort it out and this the current showstopper!
> And we're trying to help you find out why.
>   
Yes, but the implication I read into that reply maybe wrongly is that I 
should jump into the script and fix it myself! It seems often with Linux 
that that is the only solution offered, which is of no use to the people 
like me wanting to move away from windows! I dont like command line 
environments I spent 30 years in the industry supporting systems that 
only had a command line (not unix) and now I just want to use my mouse! 
I have been using Freshen and  helping Micheal sort some problems out in 
it which is whom the original message was aimed, but only in the 
expectation that at some time Freshen will get a GUI wrapper!

Tom