Re: [Visualpython-users] Building visual on SuSE 9.2 Pro

[overbyte <ove...@ea...>]

Thanks for your suggestion Jonathan.  I was pretty sure I installed the
development package.  So I tried "pkg-config --modversion gtk+" but all
I got was 3 lines of "sh: gtk-config: command not found".  Then I tried
"pkg-config --modversion python" just to see if it found python
(although maybe that's not a proper package name -- didn't look it up)
and I got an error message tellimg e to add to directory named in
PKG_CONFIG_PATH env variable.  So I looked at that path variable and
listed the directories in the path.  In /opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig I found
the gtk ".pc" files as follows:

gtk+-2.0.pc
gtk-doc.pc
gtk-engines-2.pc
gtkhex.pc
gtksourceview-1.0.pc
gtk+-x11-2.0.pc

So I tried "pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0" and wahoo!  I got a reply
of "2.4.9".
   It seems to me that the gtk+ package in this distribution is named
gtk+-2.0.  Probably this was a change made by the gtk development team
in this new release level 2.x.x.  I doubt that Novell/SuSE made such a
name change to this application package.   Maybe I can satisfy the
configure script by creating some links to give more generic alias names
to the actual packages, but I don't know the extent to which I have to
rename things (directories, files, libraries, etc.) and what that might
break.  Most likely a small change to the configure script and makefile
will handle this name discrepancy for all who use this and other
distributions having the 2.x.x releases of gtk.

Stan


On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 06:23 -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 21:16 -0800, overbyte wrote:
> > While trying to install VPython on SuSE 9.2 Pro (the latest release from
> > Novell/SuSE which just arrived this month), I get a fatal error message
> > from the configure script.  It's complaining that I don't have Gtk+ .
> > I've checked the package list in the SuSE package installer (YAST) and
> > it says the system has packages called gtk and gtk2, which both refer to
> > themselves as versions of Gtk+, however, there's nothing actually called
> > Gtk+ or gtk+ in the system. There isn't a libgtk or directory gtk
> > except /usr/lib/gtk which contains only themes.  I even did a complete
> > file search for a name gtk+ and didn't find one. Does anyone have any
> > suggestion on where I go from here?
> 
> You are probably missing the development version of the package,
> possibly named gtk-devel.  When you have it installed, the command
> `pkg-config --modversion gtk+` should print out 1.2.x, for some value of
> x (on my system, 10).
> 
> Make sure to install the development versions of all the required
> dependencies.
> 
> HTH,
> -Jonathan Brandmeyer
> 
> 
> 
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