building with recent g-wrap fails

[Derek Atkins]

Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:

> David Hampton <hampton at employees.org> writes:
>
>>
>> That's rarely true when compiling a program.  In general, the 'xxx'
>> package satisfies runtime requirements, but the 'xxx-devel' package is
>> needed to satisfy the additional compile time requirements.  You need to
>> install the g-wrap-devel package.
>>
>> David
>
> Yup, I knew that too... no brain at work here.
>
> Still, after installing the devel I'm erroring out on finding ghttp.
>
>   [...]  Unknown library `ghttp' Unknown library `ghttp' checking for
>   ghttp_request_new in -lghttp... no configure: error: Cannot find
>   ghttp. See the README and config.log for more info.
>
> That is not a package that fedora knows about.  And even though the
> error says to look at README, it isn't mentioned in the README or
> INSTALL files.  I see some mention in NEWS and changelog.1 but not
> enough to actually be informative.

The package is "libghttp-devel"

"yum search ghttp" should have told you this.

-derek
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