Error compiling Audacity: says I need wxGTK-2.4, but I do have it

vasudevadas · 01-21-2007, 08:18 AM

The configure output says this:

Code:

source@radhagovinda:/usr/local/src/audacity-src-1.2.6$ ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
<successful checks snipped>
checking for wx-config... /usr/local/bin/wx-config
Usage: wx-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--version] [--static]
                 [--libs] [--gl-libs]
                 [--cppflags] [--cflags] [--cxxflags] [--ldflags] [--rezflags]
                 [--cc] [--cxx] [--ld]
                 [--inplace]

wx-config returns configuration information about the installed
version of wxWindows. It may be used to query its version and
installation directories and also retrieve the C and C++ compilers
and linker which were used for its building and the corresponding
flags.

The --inplace flag allows wx-config to be used from the wxWindows
build directory and output flags to use the uninstalled version of
the headers and libs in the build directory.  (Currently configure
must be invoked via a full path name for this to work correctly.)
configure: Checking that the installed version of wxWidgets is 2.4.x
configure: error: Unable to locate a suitable configuration of wxWidgets v2.4.x.
The currently available configurations are listed below.  If necessary, either
install the package for your distribution or download the 2.4.x version of
wxWidgets from http://wxwidgets.org.
To help configure find the right version set WX_CONFIG to point to it.
wxWidgets 2.5.x and 2.6.x are NOT supported!

But I do have wxwidgets for GTK, version 2.4:

Code:

source@radhagovinda:/usr/local/src/audacity-src-1.2.6$ which wx-config
/usr/local/bin/wx-config
source@radhagovinda:/usr/local/src/audacity-src-1.2.6$ wx-config --version
2.4.0

Okay, so it says I need to set WX_CONFIG to 'point to it.' Obviously it is referring to an environment variable. But set it to point at what??

I've compiled Audacity from source before but never had this trouble in the past. This is Slackware 11, btw.

studioj · 01-21-2007, 03:31 PM

the environtmental variable is for pointing to wx-config
its just a link so if you have multiples you can point to others witht he shell variable

it looks like you need to fix the configure script
the usage dump from wx-config means it has recieved an invalid parameter.

look at the script
if i remember right it says something like

Code:

if which wx-config &> /dev/null && wx-config --unicode &> /dev/null; then

just try changing it to

Code:

if which wx-config &> /dev/null; then

or something like that

vasudevadas · 01-21-2007, 06:31 PM

Oh man, I can't hack the configure script. Everything is buried deep in macros.

Emerson · 01-21-2007, 06:51 PM

Try searching Gentoo Bugzilla, I think I saw this bug there with solution.

The Headacher · 01-22-2007, 04:24 AM

Looks to me like wx-gtk should've been built with prefix=/usr for audacity 1.2.x to work ...

I used a later wxGTK package from my distribution and installed audacity 1.3.2 beta instead.