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Old 07-04-2005, 04:43 PM   #1
joshyjosh1289
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Gaim and Gtk2 compile problem


Hi!

I have been a Gaim user for a long time, but for various reasons, I want to recompile it. I'm trying to compile version 1.3.1, the same one I already have, on the same computer. I decided to start from scratch... I deleted the gaim-1.3.1 directory in my home folder (that is what was extracted from the .tar.bz2 file) and extracted it again.

Anyway, I went to a terminal, typed su and the root password, then ran ./configure
Here are its last few lines:

checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.7.0)
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occurred. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:
*** GTK+ 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GTK+
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GTK+ is
*** always available at (the gtk website, dont have enough posts for link).

I didn't get that error when I successfully compiled it about 1 month ago. I'm a Suse 9.3 user, so I went to YaST, clicked Install and Remove Software, and check to see if I had gtk2-devel installed. It said I did. I did ./configure again, and got the same error. Then I tried uninstalling gtk2-devel and reinstalling it. Ran ./configure again and still got the same error.

Keep in mind, I've done this before without problems. Whats wrong and how can I fix it?
 
Old 07-05-2005, 04:52 AM   #2
darkleaf
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Is Gtk2 the same as Gtk+2?
 
Old 07-05-2005, 09:27 AM   #3
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I'm pretty sure it is, but I still consider myself to be a linux newbie. If I'm wrong about that, someone tell me.
 
  


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