[nos-bbs] OT: Linsmith on Slackware

[Brett Mueller]

On 3/30/2013 13:54, Chris Maness wrote:
> I am trying to get Linsmith to compile on slackware.  The package is not
> part of the usual slack repository.  I also tried to compile it, but I
> guess it does not know where the gnome.h file is.  Therefore the compile
> fails.  Frustrating as slackware used to be the one platform that almost
> EVERYTHING would compile on as long as the requisite dependencies were
> met.  I installed the whole 6Gig Slackware installation.

Looks like you're in need of some Gnome core files. Pat stopped including
Gnome with Slackware several years ago. You might check some place like
pkgs.org to see if they have something that will fill in for your version of
Slackware (are you using 14?).  I thought gnome.h might be included in
libgnome, but I *don't* see it on the file list of these 32 and 64-bit packages:
http://pkgs.org/slackware-13.37/slacky-i486/libgnome-2.30.0-i486-3sl.txz.html
http://pkgs.org/slackware-13.37/slacky-x86_64/libgnome-2.30.0-x86_64-1sl.txz.html

Unfortunately, I don't have time to search more for you, but maybe that will
help point you in the right direction.

By the way, this Slackbuild script for Linsmith on Slack 13.0 might also help,
especially when you see the list of Gnome package requirements near the top:
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-13.0/scientific/linsmith/0.99.12/src/linsmith.SlackBuild

73,

Brett