[Mono-devel-list] I still Can't Build gtk-sharp from svn

[Duncan Mak]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 00:33 +0000, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libesd.la' is not a valid
> > > libtool archive
> > 
> > Try installing esound-devel.
> 
> Why should gtk-sharp depend on esound-devel or is it something else
> which gtk-sharp depends on which depends on esound-devel?
> 
> I don't have that package installed here and have no problems compiling.

Requiring esound-devel to build is different from requiring esound-devel
to install.

libesd.la is distributed as part of esound-devel, that's why it is
needed for building from source.

If one were to install the pre-built packages, this requirement will not
be necessary.

-- 
Duncan Mak <duncan at ximian.com>