no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH ?...I can't make.
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checking for pkg-config... (cached) no
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found.
*** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
configure: error:
*** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.
That happened a half minute into doing "./configure" I went back to that file list and installed "glib2-devel" and "glib2-2.2.3-117.i586.rpm", tried again and got the same error above. Things are moving along. What's next?
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 occured. 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 http://www.gtk.org/.
Oh now come on. I've been pretty patient, but you could at least try! I can understand you might be a newbie, but those error messages are right there in plain english.
When it said you needed gcc, you needed to install a package called gcc (fair enough on this one, your system told you you had it installed)
When it said you needed GLIB 2.0 development headers, you needed to install a package called glib2-dev.
When it said you needed pkgconfig, you needed to install a package called pkgconfig.
Now it says you need GTK2 development headers. What do you suppose you need to do?
The package name is gtk2-devel-2.2.4-121.i586.rpm - but please try a bit of common sense if it tells you you need something else.
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.2.3)
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 occured. 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 http://www.gtk.org/.
Should I perhaps reformat the linux swap and linux partition and start all over? I don't know why compiling programs in SuSE would be so cumbersome.
(Sorry for the delayed response. I've been busy with school the past couple days.)
Distribution: SUSE 9.1 Pro and Debian Testing on Server
Posts: 469
Rep:
When installing, did you tell it to install the Default System, or did you actually go in to Detailed Selection and make sure all the development stuff was selected???
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