Re: gnome-libs HEAD building

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Lee Mallabone (lee fonicmonkey net) wrote at 21:12 on 22/10/00:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build gnome-libs HEAD so I can hack on it, but I'm having
> some problems. (well, lots of problems actually, but this is one I can't
> figure out how to solve:).
> 
> I've checked out, patched, compiled and installed (to a different
> prefix) the million and one dependencies listed in
> gnome-libs/README.HEAD. However, I'm still having problems with
> gnome-libs' configure script.
> 
> Basically, configure is failing at the following line:
> 
> checking for pkg-config... /opt/gnome-devel-install-base/bin/pkg-config
> checking for libraries... (gtk+-2.0)
> configure: error: couldn't find information for package gtk+-2.0.
> [lee slasher gnome-libs]$      
> 
> It seems that despite the fact I've installed pkg-config (0.3.5), it
> doesn't actually know about the 2.0 libs I've installed. I have
> /opt/gnome-devel-install-base/bin in my path, so I'd have thought it
> would pick up on the gtk-config-2.0 script. Do I have to explicitly tell
> pkg-config about it or am I going about this all wrong?

Strange, I didn't need pkg-config at all for my build. I have an
/opt/gnome/bin/gtk-config-2.0  - Maybe thats why?
 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -- 
> Lee.
> 
> 
> 
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