Newbie: Compiling Gnome 2.12

[Marcus Zingmark]

I'm compiling Gnome 2.12 with Garnome and have run in to some trouble. 
Since I'm a Linux newbie I hope that someone could help me out here.

This is the last I get from the compiling:

configure: Checking to see if we can build Python bindings
checking whether /usr/bin/python version >= 2.4... yes
checking for /usr/bin/python version... 2.4
checking for /usr/bin/python platform... linux2
checking for /usr/bin/python script directory... 
${prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages
checking for /usr/bin/python extension module directory... 
${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages
checking for pyrexc... no
checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found
configure: error: Building python explicitly requested, but can't build 
python bindings
make[9]: *** [configure-work/main.d/dbus-0.36.2/configure] Error 1
make[9]: Leaving directory 
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/freedesktop/dbus'
make[8]: *** [../../freedesktop/dbus/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[8]: Leaving directory 
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/platform/gnome-vfs'
make[7]: *** [../../platform/gnome-vfs/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[7]: Leaving directory 
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/platform/libgnome'
make[6]: *** [../../platform/libgnome/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[6]: Leaving directory 
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/platform/libbonoboui'
make[5]: *** [../../platform/libbonoboui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/platform/libgnomeui'
make[4]: *** [../../platform/libgnomeui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/desktop/nautilus'
make[3]: *** [../../desktop/nautilus/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/bindings/gnome-python'
make[2]: *** [../../bindings/gnome-python/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/bindings/gnome-python-extras'
make[1]: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/blackline/Desktop/garnome-2.12.0.2/bindings'
make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2

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I have python-devel installed, if that matters. Some other useful 
information might be that I'm on a FC4 machine.

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:59 PM +0200 9/30/05, Marcus Zingmark wrote:
> I'm compiling Gnome 2.12 with Garnome and have run in to some
> trouble.
> Since I'm a Linux newbie I hope that someone could help me out here.
>
> This is the last I get from the compiling:
>
> configure: Checking to see if we can build Python bindings
> checking whether /usr/bin/python version >= 2.4... yes
> checking for /usr/bin/python version... 2.4
> checking for /usr/bin/python platform... linux2
> checking for /usr/bin/python script directory...
> ${prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages
> checking for /usr/bin/python extension module directory...
> ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages
> checking for pyrexc... no 
 ...

Maybe it needs Pyrex?
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[Øyvind Stegard]

Marcus Zingmark wrote:
>  I'm compiling Gnome 2.12 with Garnome and have run in to some
> trouble.  
If the only reason you're compiling Gnome 2.12 is that you actually
want 
it on Fedora Core, you could try the precompiled packages available at 
http://www.nrpms.net/, instead. Should be easier to install, and take a 
lot less time.

Øyvind
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