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lxterminal won't see vte
Installed vte several weeks ago.
Attempted to compile lxterminal as per the BLFS8 book. Fail at configure: it claims there is no vte. Installed vte again today to make sure. No change. Arg. Right: so how do I give lxterminal's configure the clue? Thank you in advance. |
there are 3 different and non-compatable vte packages what version are you installing, what are you li king against gtk2 or3?
if you want a light no frills terminal see my sig |
sorry this ones not in my sig try this:
https://github.com/KeithDHedger/KKTerminal |
The one linked directly by the BLFS8 book.
Does your terminal have transparency? Cut and paste to & from the clipboard? |
no transparency dont see the point but of course cutting and pasting.
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blfs doesn't say what gtk its linking against seems odd heres the links for the other vte's one of them may help:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...-0.28.2.tar.xz http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...-0.40.0.tar.xz http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...-0.29.1.tar.xz What version is the configure script asking for? |
just had a quick look the configure is looking for and finding the correct vte (0.28.2) so have you forgotten to ambe do make install with the vte package?
what does Code:
pkg-config --modversion vteIf it shows nothing or anything other than 0.28.2 something went qrong building and installing the vte package |
There are two in the book, the one XFCE uses and the one Gnome uses. Make sure you're getting the correct one.
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Two in the book? **** me. That's nuts. It's like python or gtk then? Arg.
Keith Hedger: Code:
root@artemis:~ # pkg-config --modversion vteQuote:
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somthing must have gone wrong with your install of vte b3cause there should be a .pc file in /usr/lib/pkgconfig this is where pkg-config gets its data not from the actual librarys, reinstall vte and check that the .pc file is installed.
sorry ignore that just seen the .pc file you haave the wrong version install vte 0.28.2 the .pc filename is different |
just an fyi the 0.29.1 version is for gtk3 the 0.28.2 version is for gtk2 both can be installed side by side with no problems, lxterminal by default uses gtk2 so thats why you nee to install 28.
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Here ya go... This is new in recent versions of libinput...
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checking dependency style of g++... gcc3A: Version agnostic Python scripts, or... B: Autoconf scripts that simply skip Python if your not running Python3 and have not explicitly requested it. Whomever is responsible for that ^^^ needs to be slapped senseless (figuratively speaking) for acting a petty twit. The fact that configure hard stops on this is completely unnecessary unless your a jackass with an agenda. But hey, if I am wrong... and that behavior really is incidental... That just confirms the responsible party is careless, or oblivious. Or, how do you explain that they went to all the trouble to put that in the configure script instead of magically making the python2 version of the parse script disappear and suddenly a new one requires Python3? You can't, explain it without outside motivation. EDIT: In my irritation, it first read like I was soliciting violence, that's not my intention. Moves like this are just infuriating because it all comes down to people being "difficult" over some cause or movement when everything could work just as well, probably better, without that garbage. |
try developing with gtk 3, every minor revision introduces major api breakages, with api's just dissappearing for no apparent reason, function calls changing the order of passed parematers etc etc etc ...
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