Re: make in fedora 2

Soo.... what is the status, is there a way a regular newbie can install 
pgAdmin on FC2?

tia,
.V


Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 10:08, Vic Cekvenich wrote:
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>>I am a linux newbie and want to run pgadmin on Fedora 2.
>>
>>RPM's have a conflict so I tried configre/make.... make complains that 
>>it needs and argument since there is no makefile it finds.
>>
>>help?
>>tia,
>>    
>>
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>Just this week I was working on the same thing.  
>
>Bad news is that due to changes in the gtk+ packages that ship with
>Fedora Core 2 the wxWindows code and subsequently pgadmin will not build
>on Fedora Core 2.
>
>Joe Conway on the GENERAL postgresql mailing list supplied this
>information for me.  Apparently in the wxWindows package they access
>internal gtk+ functions.  In the Fedora Core 2 gtk+ packages they no
>longer export these internal functions so wxWindows is unable to access
>them.
>
>Joe Conway did figure out a fix.  He created a patch and rebuilt the
>gtk+ package to export the internal functions.  Once that is rebuilt and
>installed then you can build the wxWindows package and then the pgadmin
>package.
>
>Search in the GENERAL postgresql mailing list for the subject:
>
>Bulding pgadmin on Fedora core 2.  Joe included the patch for gtk+ in
>one of those messages.
>
>I have not allocated time yet to test out the patch or modified
>packages.
>
>I was going to go look up the wxWindows site and see if they are working
>on a fix to resolve this problem without having to change the gtk+
>packages.
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