./confure make make install IMO, That is all that should be needed to compile anything to a sane configuration. How many places can the libraries be sitting? - 4 or 5 tops? Use locate in the autoconf file, or find if need be. Ruben On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:48:19PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > While it might be tedious to have a properly working autoconf > > test, it is what is needed for a sane installation of the source. > > You obviously missed the cause of this particular problem. Of course > what you state here is correct in general. > > > BTW - this problem is not just with gtk, but with gnome as well. > > > > Nothing is more fustrating than being told by a gtk application that > > lib xyz doesn't exist, when you can see the library in plain sight > > on the file system. > > IMO this is solely a problem of people not reading the docs. Building > GTK+ (and probably most if not all GNOME applications) is > straight-forward if you know a handful of rules. Basically you will > need to know how your compiler looks for include files and how your > linker looks for libraries. Then you should know how to change these > behaviours and what role pkg-config is playing in this game. All this > can be explained in full detail in about hundred lines. If people > would look at the file INSTALL, they would notice a link to a webpage > as well as a pointer to a local file which does just that. If you have > a working build environment and understand these simple rules, you > shouldn't run into any build problems. > > > Sven -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions __________________________ DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS http://fairuse.nylxs.com http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn.... 1-718-382-0585 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
