Problem Building 2.0.1

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Aug 22 15:45:32 EDT 2006


Are you sure you have the full gtk/gnome development environment installed?
I mean you ARE running slackware, which doesn't come with gnome.  Where
did you get your gnome system?  Have you read the Wiki?   Have you
considered switching to a real distribution?

-derek

Quoting Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>:

>   Trying to build 2.0.1 on my Slackware-10.2 system, and ./configure tells
> me it cannot find cairo.pc or gtk+2 > 2.4.
>
>   Taking the offered suggestion, I create the environment variable:
>
> export 
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/gtk+-2.8.20
>
> and try running ./configure again. Same errors show up:
>
> checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4... Package cairo was not found in the
> pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing
> `cairo.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'cairo',
> required by 'Pango Cairo', not found
> configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4) not met; consider
> adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in
> a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
>
>   I thought that pkg-config was only for gtk+1, not the latest version.
> Regardless, I am not sure what else to do so that I can get past this point.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Rich
>
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