problem compiling -current on Debian

[James LewisMoss]

>>>>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:47:27 +0100, Jan-Uwe Finck <ju.finck@nord-com.net> said:

 Jan-Uwe> Hi, as I try for some time now to compile -current on a
 Jan-Uwe> 'unstable' Debian machine, I stumble across the same error
 Jan-Uwe> over and over:

 Jan-Uwe> ./configure ....  ....  checking for db1/db.h... yes
 Jan-Uwe> checking for gtk_html_new in -lgtkhtml... no configure:
 Jan-Uwe> error: Cannot find gtkhtml.  See the README for more info.



 Jan-Uwe> Installed are these :

 Jan-Uwe> gtkhtml 0.8.2-1 libgtkhtml-dev 0.8.2-1 libgtkhtml-data
 Jan-Uwe> 0.8.2-1 libgtkhtml-7 0.8.2-1

 Jan-Uwe> Are these libs really too old, or is that erro message
 Jan-Uwe> completely misleading ?

Assuming the libgtkhtml is spelled libgtkhtml7 everything there looks
ok.  Your best bet is to look at config.log and see what error it's
getting.  It could be an earlier error causing this to fail.  If you
send me the complete ./configure output and the config.log file I'll
see if I can't help.

Jim

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