Re: gtk-2.12.11, adjusting PKG_CONFIG_PATH

[jjlynch <lyngly gmail com>]

Thank you kindly, you were exactly right.
I'm on openSuSE-11.0, and I just needed the development version of atk, pango and cairo as you suggested. It appears to be properly installed now, and I'm wiser for my next build from source as well.

Message: 5
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:42:43 +0100
From: Rob Pearce <rob bdt-home demon co uk>
Subject: Re: gtk-2.12.11, adjusting PKG_CONFIG_PATH
To: gtk-list gnome org
Message-ID: <200807070842 43501 rob bdt-home demon co uk>
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On Sunday 06 July 2008, jjlynch wrote:
> Meanwhile,
>
> rpm -q atk
> atk-1.22.0-23.1
> rpm -q pango
> pango-1.20.1-20.1
> rpm -q cairo
> cairo-1.4.14-32.1
>
> and just installed glib-2.16.4
>
> So I meet all of these requirements mentioned.

Not necessarily true, unfortunately. When you are building GTK from source,
and it declares a required dependency, it needs the "development" version of
those packages. Some distros don't package enough headers with the "basic"
package.

> I looked at some other posts
> with people having a problem with setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and tried just
> setting it to wherever glib, atk, cairo and pango are.

Generally that's not where the PKG_CONFIG_PATH should point. If you can't find
the necessary .pc files anywhere then it suggests you haven't got
the "development" packages installed (the basic package may be missing it
since binaries pre-compiled against the libs don't need the .pc file)

That said, you haven't told us which distro you're using (apart from it's
RPM-based) so I'm guessing somewhat.