Re: FVWM: fvwm2.4 gnome dependency - can it be built without gnome?

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:11:53 +0000

On 14 Aug 2001 10:06:00 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>
> Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+fvwm_at_acadia.ne.mediaone.net> writes:
> > Hey folks. Long time fvwm2 user here (they'll never get me back to
> > another wm now!).
> >
> > Anyway, I switched my OS over to FreeBSD recently, and wasted no time
> > making use of the fvwm2-devel port (2.3.?).
> >
> > Of course, now that fvwm2.4 has been released, the devel port is
> > marked as broken in deference to the fvwm2 port. Problem, it wants to
> > build with gnome all of a sudden. The 2.3 port at least made this an
> > option, and I avoided it intentionally.
> >
> > Last time I tried to build any of the gnome ports on a FreeBSD system,
> > it took over a Gig of disk space to corral all the dependencies
> > (something like 6 deep and 7 wide!). Good thing I had just upgraded
> > the system to a 40G drive!
> >
> > How tough would it be to get this built *without* gnome? I really see
> > no reason to build it in, since I haven't made any significant config
> > changes since 2.2, and I won't be using any of the fancy new stuff
> > anyway. Besides, the system I am hoping to get the upgrade on may not
> > *have* the space for this kind of extensively dependent build.
>
> Does
>
> ./configure --disable-gnome
>
> help?

I suggest to use "./configure --help" so that we don't confuse each other.
Reading INSTALL.fvwm before anything else is good too. :)

It should be "./configure --without-gnome" to force the building without
gnome-libs. But if there is no gnome installed this is automatically used.

I am not sure what this Makefile wants to achieve regarding GNOME:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/x11-wm/fvwm2/Makefile?rev=1.31&content-type=text/plain

because gnome-libs support is already autoconfigured in fvwm.

And it seems they did the same error as above (I don't really know their
intension). --enable-gnome is good, it has nothing to do with gnome-libs,
but with gnome-wm hints. Non GNOME applications may use these hints too.
I may rename this option to --disable-gnome-wm if this helps.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 12:11:41 BST

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