GDM

Download Source:	http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdm/2.16/gdm-2.16.1.tar.bz2

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Dependencies

Required

• libgnomecanvas
• GNOME Doc-Utils
• librsvg

Optional

• intltool
• Linux-Pam
• TCP Wrappers
• OpenAFS
• usermode
• SELinux

Creating the GDM User/Group

groupadd -g 23 gdm &&
useradd -c "GDM Daemon Owner" -d /dev/null \
        -g gdm -s /bin/bash -u 23 gdm

Configuration Information

To enable secure remote connections you must have Zenity, OpenSSH and which installed add the following argument to your configure command:

--enable-secureremote=yes

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib \
    --libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib/gdm \
    --mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
    --with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make

Install the package

make install

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the package:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" &&
CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" USE_ARCH=32 \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib \
    --libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib/gdm \
    --mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
    --with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH

N32

Compile the package:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" &&
CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" USE_ARCH=n32 \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
    --libdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib32 \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib \
    --libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib/gdm \
    --mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
    --with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH

64Bit

Compile the package:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" &&
CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" USE_ARCH=64 \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
    --libdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib64 \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib \
    --libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib/gdm \
    --mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
    --with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH