Re: Problems building f-spot (gtk-sharp)

[Trevor Pearson <trevor haven demon co uk>]

Warren Baird wrote:
> On 3/17/06, *Gabriel Burt* <gabriel burt gmail com 
> <mailto:gabriel burt gmail com>> wrote:
>
>
>     The Building page is out of date.  You don't need SVN gtk-sharp, and
>     you do need much higher than 0.28 mono (more like 1.1.10 I think).  If
>     you are on Ubuntu, I would suggest doing a "sudo apt-get build-dep
>     f-spot" to get the needed packages. 
>
>
> Hmm..  With ubtunu 5.10 "sudo apt-get build-dep f-spot" says:
>
>     E: Unable to find a source package for f-spot
>
>
> I have the binary version of f-spot (0.1.3) installed, so I think I 
> have all the repositories configured correctly.
>
> I went ahead and tried to configure f-spot with all of the packages 
> from ubuntu installed that I could find.   I get this error:
>
> -----
> Requested 'gtkhtml-sharp-2.0 >= 2.7' but version of Gtkhtml is 2.3.92
>
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> -----
>
> I'm assuming Gtkhtml is part of Mono?   Would building my own newer 
> version of mono get around this?
>
> I'm doing this on my work laptop, so I'd rather avoid using 
> pre-releases of Ubuntu...  I need the overall system to be pretty 
> stable...
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Warren
I'vc built f-spot on Fedora core 3 (now on core5) and got the same 
issues, try running a few 'tests' like
find / -name "gtk*.pc" -print >pkg-config-path-list
or
find / -name "*sharp*pc" -print >pkg-config-path-list
this will find all the package config files (like gtkhtml-sharp.pc) 
which the configure script uses to determine which gtkhtml (or whatever) 
you have installed, it may be you have two such files and the first one 
pkg-config finds in /usr/lib/pkgconfig is older to test this run
pkg-config -modversion gtkhtml-sharp .
you then could point PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the location of more recent 
'.pc' files and/or rename the old ones and try again...
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/mono-1.1.10/lib/pkgconfig or 
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
The configure script also suggests setting 'CFLAGS' and other variables, 
you can find their correct values in those '.pc' files along with 
version information

This process resolved build issues I had on fedora, I have not tried 
building on ubuntu....

Trev