Re: gnome-config not found

["Nitin Jain" <nitinj1981 gmail com>]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev yandex ru> wrote:
>
> В Сбт, 12/07/2008 в 14:34 -0600, Nitin Jain пишет:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev yandex ru> wrote:
>> >
>> > В Птн, 11/07/2008 в 11:04 -0600, Nitin Jain пишет:
>> >> Hi!
>> >> I'm a newbie on this forum as well as to the world of GTK, so
>> >> apologies for any mistakes in prior.
>> >> I'm trying to install an old application (from source) that uses GTK
>> >> and GNOME graphical toolkits - however, while running the configure
>> >> script, I get a
>> >> "configure: error: Program gnome-config not found".
>> >> Browsing uptil now has yielded the info that `gnome-config' used to be
>> >> a part of `pkg-config' but was axed... so, I am not sure if merely
>> >> changing the configure script (replacing `gnome-config' with
>> >> `'pkg-config') would help? As such, I have installed the gtk-devel,
>> >> libgnomeui packages (and am on SuSE 10.2).
>> >
>> > You probably need to install GNOME 1.4 desktop from a compatibility
>> > repository:
>> >
>> > ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/GNOME:/GNOME1/openSUSE_10.2/i586
>> >
>> > for gnome-config you need to install the package
>> >
>> > gnome-libs-devel
>> >
>> >> Also, in case it's not easy to override the dependancy on
>> >> gnome-config, then can you please tell me some alternative(s)? How
>> >> easy would it be, for a newbie, to port the API that makes use of the
>> >> newer *stuff* ?
>> >
>> > Well, it's quite a complicated work. What exact program are you talking
>> > about, probably we can help to port it to GNOME2 quickly.
>> >
>>
>> Hi!
>> Many thanks for your prompt response.
>> The app I am trying to port is basically a software oscilloscope
>> library `gscope' that was written way back in 2001 - here's the link:
>> http://gscope.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> As of now, I just (blatantly) substituted gnome-config (and
>> GNOME_CONFIG) with pkg-config (and PKG_CONFIG) throughout the
>> configure script, which gives the following:
>>
>> checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
>> Package gnomeui was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gnomeui.pc'
>> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> No package 'gnomeui' found
>> Package gnomeui was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gnomeui.pc'
>> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> No package 'gnomeui' found
>>
>> So, as per the advice on this link:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2005-July/011663.html
>> I changed
>> gnomeui to libgnomeui-2.0
>> in the configure script again.
>> This seemed to work, with the above 'No package' warnings vanished....
>> however, doing `make' is still unsuccessful and gives this error:
>> cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status gscopeconfig.h
>> Usage: ./config.status [--recheck] [--version] [--help]
>> make: *** [stamp-h1] Error 1
>>
>> Could you please throw some light what should I try, now?
>>
>> Thanks again!
>
> Oh, I'd better drop this project completely and created something based
> on gstreamer like existing libvisual plugins:
>
> http://libvisual.sourceforge.net/
>
>

Hi!
Thanks for your reply again. I'd a look at both gstreamer and the link
above... unfortunately, they seem to be too generic - my application
intends to provide just an oscilloscope environment, with a file-based
input. Resurrecting 'gscope' would be a large & challenging (for a
newbie) task too... but I think it should be worth the effort!?

Regards,
Nitin