Sawfish on Slackware 12.0

trashbird1240 · 03-31-2008, 09:54 AM

Howdy,

Has anyone gotten Sawfish running on Slackware 12.0? I've tried compiling it and have run into some compile problems with its dependencies. It looks like rep-gtk is incompatible with 12.0's version of gtk2+; however, I upgraded gtk to -current, and it didn't help, and now I need to downgrade it back to the 12.0 package (gtk apps are having trouble starting).

Thanks,
Joel

gnashley · 04-01-2008, 12:53 AM

Which versions of librep and rep-gtk are you using?

trashbird1240 · 04-01-2008, 08:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gnashley

Which versions of librep and rep-gtk are you using?

Thanks for checking in:

librep-0.17.tar.gz
rep-gtk-0.18.tar.gz

The most recent versions on Sourceforge.

Librep compiles just fine, but rep-gtk fails with this message:

Code:

-*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "~/SlackBuilds/rep-gtk/rep-gtk-0.18/" -*-
Compilation started at Tue Apr  1 09:17:36

make 
/usr/libexec/rep/i486-slackware-linux-gnu/libtool ...

libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
make: *** [rep-types.lo] Error 1

Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Tue Apr  1 09:17:37

I looked up the error, and it appears to be that rep-gtk is expecting to be built with an older version of libtool than is available in Slackware 12.0. This seems to be a "complain to the upstream maintainers" issue like Pat indicated in UPGRADE.TXT.

#sawfish was no help: all people said was "What distro are you using? apt-get install sawfish!"

Joel

trashbird1240 · 04-01-2008, 08:25 AM

I just looked at the Makefile, and it appears I need GNOME, glade and company. I look at installing GNOME yesterday and just have too little space on /.

Joel

gnashley · 04-01-2008, 09:25 AM

I just had a go the other day at updating the versions of swafish, librep and rep-gtk which I keep on my site. I wound up settling with librep-0.17 and rep-gtk-0.15 to supply for sawfish-1.2. But this was for a GTK-1.2 only system.
If I were you I'd try an earlier version of rep-gtk -I'm not sure which one will work without GNOME(after 0.15), but I'm sure one will.
And here's a tip for those sources which give the odd error about mismatched versions of libtool or automake -run 'autoreconf -if' in the sources before configuring. That will usually fiy nearly anything that could go wrong with the config files. It simply runs the various automake-autoconf-libtool commands recursively until everything (usually) is fixed. It would be about the same as running:
automake
autoheader
libtoolize
automake -a (yes again)
autoconf

I always like sawfish -if I weren't so happy with wmaker, it would probably be my next choice -or icewm.

trashbird1240 · 05-03-2008, 09:37 AM

I successfully installed Sawfish: please see this page on Sawfish Wiki.

Joel