Re: ./configure problem with gnome-config

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 09:28 -0700, P Journan wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. gnutrition is a rather outdated
> program but the only one I could find in opensource...
> frankly, it should b dropped from sourceforge as there
> is only spam in  the mailing list and no-one seems to
> be maintaining the files or moderating the lists 
> :((
old ! last update was in 2001 

> 
> I changed gnomej-config to pkg-config in the configure
gnome-config was used by gnome 1.x series, and pkg-config do not list
these libraries afaik.


> script and it configured ok.

This application we need lot more than pkg-config substitution .

> 
> BUT "make" stops with a very curious error:
> "Makefile", line 280: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1
> 
> I checked the Web for an explanation and cure without
> success - the code:
> 
> 278.        mkdir $(distdir)/=build
> 279.    mkdir $(distdir)/=inst
> 280.        dc_install_base=`cd $(distdir)/=inst &&
> pwd`; \
> 281        cd $(distdir)/=build \
> 
> appears in other Makefiles. Also, I do not understand
> what 'operator' is missing ...

let me see what i can do, no promises :|

> 
> Once again, any help or suggestions would be welcome.
> 
> Philip
> 
> --- Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:05 -0700, P Journan wrote:
> > > Trying to install gnutrition on FreeBSD 6.2,
> > > ./configure returns error message "did not find
> > > libglade installed".
> > > gnome-config --libs libglade returns "Unknown
> > library
> > > libglade"
> > > gnome-config --libdir returns "/usr/local/lib"
> > > libglade exists in /usr/local/lib
> > 
> > 
> > I believe gnome use pkg-config
> > 
> > $ pkg-config --list-all
> > 
> > 
> > > gnome-config --libs * returns "Unknown..." for
> > every
> > > listing.
> > > Also, libglade-2.0 exists in /usr/local/include
> > but
> > > that is a directory and its subdirectory (glade)
> > > contains a number of script files.
> > > This is rather confusing... I do not understand
> > why
> > > libglade is not found either by ./configure or on
> > > command line (both using gnome-config)
> > > Generally, I am able to find sufficient
> > information in
> > > help files or on the net to deal with most
> > > installation and runtime problems. Here, I am
> > stumped.
> > > Thanks in advance for any help ...
> > > Philip
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > >
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