Hi Norman, Robert, In the long run, it would seem a good idea to make it possible to disable these new peers, just as users can disable gcjappletviewer, the gtk and qt peers, etc. Cheers, Andrew On 19 Jun 2006, at 11:50, Robert Schuster wrote: > Hi Norman, > sorry that this stopped your development but with CVS sources stuff > like that > can happen from time to time. > > On Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux-based distros you need to install > libgconf2-dev. > This will download and install C header files which are needed to > compile the > native side of the GConf-based backend for java.util.prefs. > > Now you know for what it it used. java.util.prefs is a API that allows > applications to conveniently store preferences and other > configuration data. The > RI on Windows machines can use the so-called registry on that > system. On > GNU/Linux systems they have a simple file based implementation. > > GNU Classpath can write the data to plain files (no dependencies) > or use the > GConf library for that task. The latter was made the default > because it is > technically nicer and integrates better in the GNU environment. > > Btw: I have a patch that mentions the new library dependency in > INSTALL here. > :) > > cya > Robert > > Norman Hendrich wrote: >> Hello Roman, >> >> thanks for your quick reply. >> >> >> >>> Orbit is usually installed as part of Gnome. Of which gconf is the >>> configuration management. So if you have gconf you usually also have >>> Gnome and with it you'll have Orbit. >> >> >> OK. So far, I only have those parts of gnome required to building >> classpath. So much for my priorities :-) >> >> >> classpath configure now requires gconf >= 2.11.2: >> >> ./configure --with-jikes --disable-plugin --prefix=/opt/classpath >> [...] >> checking for gconf-2.0 >= 2.11.2... Package gconf-2.0 was not >> found in the >> pkg-config search path. >> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gconf-2.0.pc' >> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable >> No package 'gconf-2.0' found >> >> >> while building gconf 2.11.92 fails with >> >> ./configure >> No package 'ORBit-2.0' found >> configure: error: Package requirements (gmodule-2.0 >= 2.7.0 >> gobject-2.0 >= >> 2.7.0 ORBit-2.0 >= 2.4.0) were not met. >> >> >> and building a fresh gconf 2.14.0 fails with: >> >> ./configure >> checking for DEPENDENT... Requested 'glib-2.0 > 2.9.0' but version >> of GLib is >> 2.8.6 >> configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 > 2.9.0 >> gmodule-2.0 >= 2.7.0 >> gobject-2.0 >= 2.7.0 ORBit-2.0 >= 2.4.0) were not met: >> >> I don't use GNOME. Seems like --disable-gconf-peer is the way to go. >> What are the gconf peers supposed to do anyway? >> >> Thanks, Norman >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- Andrew :) Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield
