> on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:23:58 +-0200 (EET), Sakari Aaltonen wrote: > > > But how does one make pkg-config find libpng? There is a libpng in > > /usr/lib, which should be a pretty reasonable place for pkg-config > > to search, would it not? > > You need to have the libpng development package installed - check that you > have libpng.pc in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/. Ermmm... There is a valgrind.pc. No libpng.pc. (Is there no end to the packages that one needs nowadays?) > > And no, I'm not at all clear on what Cairo does. I just want to > > compile a program called aMule. But that program seems to rely on > > tons and tons of stuff that is not installed on the systems at hand. > > It all starts with something called wxWindows. > > If you just want aMule, the easiest would be to simply install wxWidgets > development libraries, that should pull in all dependant libraries, too. > What distribution do you use? I gave up on my home machine (running Slackware) and tried to build aMule on a colleague's Linux box at work (Suse 9.2). I may have to give up on that machine, too. My fruitless attempts with pango resulted in my colleague's Firefox stopping working, and he's rather angry with me now. Sakari Aaltonen _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
