Re: Where is gtkmm.h (or am I going mad)?

[Alan Mazer <alan s mazer jpl nasa gov>]

On 4/22/2013 5:29 PM, Alan Mazer wrote:
> On 4/22/2013 4:23 PM, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> > Quoth Alan Mazer
> > > A few months ago, or maybe a little past that, I had an application
> > > coded using gtmkk for RHEL 6.  I just went back to it now and can't get
> > > it to compile.  Somehow gtkmm.h seems to have disappeared from my
> > > system.  More to the point, I can't figure out how to get it back.  
> > > I've
> > > got binaries but no includes.  Yum says that there's nothing available
> > > except gtkmm24.x86_64 and says that I already have the latest 
> > > version of
> > > THAT.  I found an rpm somewhere and tried to install that and just got
> > > an error.  Am I going mad?  How do I get my gtkmm stuff working 
> > > again on
> > > RHEL 6???
> > As a general rule, you need to install the -dev or -devel packages in 
> > order
> > to get header files and other files required to build software that 
> > uses the
> > library.  The packages without the suffix are just the runtimes for 
> > prebuilt
> > binaries.
>
>
> Understood.  But yum on RHEL 6 shows no devel packages available.

In case anyone else has this problem in the future...  The solution is 
to go to the RedHat customer portal and select Downloads->Packages.  
This identifies the repository containing the package.  Then you can use 
yum-config-manager with the --enable option to enable the corresponding 
repository, and then yum with the install option to install.  It's still 
not clear how my code built in the past.  It would appear that 
subsequent to my last compile some RHN update removed the devel package 
(perhaps after noticing that my access to the package was disabled).

I do have to give props to Red Hat though.  The phone wait was annoying, 
but they identified and solved the problem in just a few minutes.  
US-based support that can solve problems.  May their tribe increase!