[compiz] Compiling Compiz

[Johan Kotze]

Tuukka 

I have tried your suggestions, but they are a bit too technical for me. What I am actually looking for is a compiled rpm
of compiz 0.2.0 for SLED (i586 and x86_64). Do you perhaps know where I can find that. 

Thanx 

Johan Kotze

>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:26 PM, in message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0610172345020.22123 at kanto>, Tuukka Hastrup
<Tuukka.Hastrup at iki.fi> wrote:

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Johan Kotze wrote:
> I have downloaded compiz-0.2.0 and tried to compile it. The INSTALL file
> talks about autgen.sh, but I am unable to locate it. I tried ./configure

Right, in development versions you need to run ./autogen.sh, but in
release versions that's already done and ./configure is where you should
start at.

> but it complains about a number of missing packages. Is there any docs
> on how to compile compiz on SLED 10 ? I have searched in a lot of

I've found the distribution packages to be helpful in these cases even if
you want to compile your own. You can install the latest binary package
available in your distribution to get most of the runtime dependencies on
the side. Similarily, you can install and build the latest source package
(.src.rpm file on SLED) to get at least most of the build-time
dependencies satisfied.

Alternatively, the compiz.spec file inside the source RPM has the
information you need: Requires-lines for runtime and BuildRequires-lines
for build-time. Google finds at least the spec file for compiz 0.2.0 in a
random distribution:

http://developer.momonga-linux.org/viewvc/trunk/pkgs/compiz/compiz.spec?revision=11695&view=markup

The package names might not match SLED though.

> places, but have not been able to dig up anything. A detailed list of
> what packages is required (and where to locate them) would be greatly
> appreciated.

You could also try to read the provided configure.ac file. For example,
there's a list of "COMPIZ_REQUIRES" and various "PKG_CHECK_MODULES"
statements.

This is not most user-friendly though. Perhaps someone else can provide
you with the information you actually asked for :-)

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