Re: Compiling IceCat on gNewSense2.0

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Fri, 23 May 2008 21:17:29 +0300
Yavor Doganov <address@hidden> wrote:

> Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> > 
> > I realize that the problem is that XLIBS and XT_LIBS are empty.
> 
> This is only a consequence of missing libraries/headers at configure
> time.  The cure is to have everything necessary installed, not to try
> to cheat the build system.
> 
> > I run Debian and have the libxt-dev package installed.
> 
> I suspect that you attempted to build the package, then installed
> libxt-dev and retried?  If so, please rerun ./configure in order

Yes. 

> config/autoconf.mk and the other necessary files to be recreated.

But since then I have re-run "./configure" and "make clean" and I still
have the same problem.

> > When I set these variables manually to 
> 
> Setting them manually is asking for trouble.  There's a reason why

Absolutely. I just did this to check whether the empty variables above
are the nub of the problem.

> conditionally compiled.  (Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with IceCat at
> all, speaking in general.)

To tell the truth, I am experiencing the problem with IceWeasel and
strictly speaking I should not be posting here ...


TES