Compilation problem (solved) on 1.8.12 for Ubuntu/Debian systems
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Feb 20 18:57:05 EST 2006
Quoting Jordan Erickson <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net>:
> checking for gtkhtml >= 1.1... yes
> checking for gtk_html_new in -lgtkhtml-1.1... no
> configure: error: Cannot link gtkhtml-1.1. See the README and
> config.log for more info.
> ---
>
> ALL gtkhtml-dev packages were already installed. After a few hours of
> scratching my head and apt-getting anything related to gtkhtml I dug
> into config.log and then saw that ld was querying gtkhtml through
> gconf (sorry if that sounds off, i'm not a programmer). So I
> installed libgconf-dev (which in turn installed liboaf-dev), and
> ./configure passed the check.
>
> Hope this helps some other people that might have the same problem,
> as it's not incredibly obvious which dev packages are necessary to
> compile sucessfully.
This sounds like a Debian/ubuntu packaging problem. I suggest you
file a bug report with them to get the dependencies correct in their
packages.
> - Jordan
-derek
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