Hello, I am trying to compile gtk+-2.8.9 on Debian Linux. I have a mix of stable and testing packages installed. I have successfully compiled glib, atk, pango, cairo, etc. When I try to configure gtk+-2.8.9, I get this error: checking for X... no configure: error: X development libraries not found When I try to install the libgtk2.0-dev Debian package, I get this message: ---- BEGIN ----- # apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libatk1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libfs6 libpango1.0-dev libx11-6 libx11-dev libxaw8 libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxfixes3 libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbfile-dev libxkbui1 libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 render-dev x-dev x11-common xbase-clients xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xserver-xorg xutils Suggested packages: libcairo2-doc libgtk2.0-doc libpango1.0-doc configlet-frontends discover libglide2 Recommended packages: xresprobe laptop-detect The following packages will be REMOVED: xfree86-common The following NEW packages will be installed: libatk1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libfs6 libgtk2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libx11-dev libxaw8 libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxfixes3 libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbfile-dev libxkbui1 libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 render-dev x-dev x11-common xserver-xorg The following packages will be upgraded: libx11-6 xbase-clients xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xutils 5 upgraded, 24 newly installed, 1 to remove and 337 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 18.6MB of archives. After unpacking 21.5MB of additional disk space will be used. ---- END ----- I decided to try to compile it from source, because messing with installed xfree86 stuff could really mess the whole system up, right? Is there a way to just compile the X development libraries that I need, and point the GTK configure script to those libraries, without reinstalling the whole xserver system ? Which X source packages do I need to download and compile for GTK to work? Is it possible to compile the X server libraries as shared / dynamic libraries, and point the GTK configure script to those shared libraries? Thanks, and sorry if these questions seem a bit ... uninformed. - Jay _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
