[techtalk] ICU troubles

[Dan Nguyen]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:59:17AM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:
> On Feb 18, Dan Nguyen conjectured:
> 
> > Your missing some more devel stuff.  As you see below your missing
> > gnome-config and well without it your program wn't know where to find
> > the panel-applet-devel stuff.	I'm not sure which rpm they would be
> > available in :(
> 
> Hmm.  I do have the gnome-config stuff.  (I remembered to install it.  I
> was so worried about getting the other libraries that I forgot where I
> moved the rpm for gnome-devel and forgot to install it.  heh.)  But
> anyway.  There were no other failed dependency errors that I saw.
> According to te INSTALL file, I now have everything necessary to get it to
> work.  (And I mean it this time.)  THey are:

It's apparently not finding it.  Remember to delete the config.cache
file when you rerun ./configure otherwise it may not recheck for things.

> Maybe I need gnome-core-devel.  THat is the only one it wants...  (This is
> a big pain in my arse, you know?  My modem freezes and stalls a lot after
> a couple hundred K, and I'm using a 28K dialup.  *sigh*  Living out of
> range for decent DSL and not having any other high-speed options
> sucks.)

Unless you _really_ want gnome support, (i.e. a panel app which has
your status and number of messages) you can probably disable it.  The
exact flag for ./configure can be found by doing a ./configure --help
and reading all the options.

> 
> So, why do programs need development libraries sometimes?  The reason I
> don't usually bother to get devel-libraries is because I'm not a
> developer.  I'm not a programmer, I don't know any programming languages
> (though I'm working on larning my 3rd natural human language).  But then I
> try to install a new program that needs them.  I don't get it.

Most libraries are split up into two parts run-time and development.
The run-time is required to run the program.  But to save on space the
devel stuff is usually placed in it's own package.  The devel stuff
usually includes the header files for the library, and things like a
config program like gtk-config, gnome-config, etc., as well as debug
versions of libraries.

You only need the devel libraries if you are building them yourself.


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