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

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 08:42 -0800, overbyte wrote:
> 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

Gtk+ 2.x is a completely different package from Gtk+ 1.2.  VPython needs
Gtk+ 1.2.x.  You need to get the development package for Gtk+ 1.x, _NOT_
2.x.

Python does not provide a .pc file for pkg-config.  Visual's configure
script uses other means to figure out the information it needs to
compile against Python.


> 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

This won't work.  Gtk+ 2.x is both ABI and API incompatible with Gtk+
1.2, which is why the Gtk+ developers raised the major version number.

I do not have access to a SUSE 9.2 system to figure out what the right
package is, and Novell/SUSE does not make this information publicly
available, as far as I can see.  So, you will have to figure out which
package provides the development versions of the libraries for Gtk+ 1.2.
The last thing that I heard was that the package was named "gtk+-devel",
which is why I mentioned that name in the INSTALL.txt file.  When you
find out what the right package is for SUSE 9.2, please let me know so
that I can update the installation notes.

Sorry,
Jonathan