Re: Balsa build blows up

[Rahul P Sinha <rsinha Glue umd edu>]

okay, you are (probably) a victim of the /usr vs. /usr/local prob

type "which gtk-config"
it will answer either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin
now type "gtk-config --version

(if it gives an incorrect version, you have two copies installed.  This is
NOT your prob, as obviously either /usr/local/bin OR /usr/bin has not
gtk-config in it, but for future reference, as a lot of people hit this
wall eventually)

go to the other location (ie /u/l/b if it reports /u/b as the current
location of gtk-config) and ln -s {the current location}/gtk-config
gtk-config


is there a more permanent solution than this? yes.

[root@sparky /root]# cd /usr/local
[root@sparky local]# ls -l
total 3
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Apr  6 16:26 bin -> /usr/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Apr  6 16:26 doc -> /usr/doc/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Apr  6 17:26 enlightenment
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Apr  6 16:27 etc -> /usr/etc/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           11 Apr  6 16:28 games -> /usr/games/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Apr 14 21:45 html
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 Apr  6 16:28 include -> /usr/include/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           10 Apr  6 16:28 info -> /usr/info/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Apr  6 16:29 lib -> /usr/lib/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Apr 15 17:29 libexec
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Apr  6 16:29 man -> /usr/man/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           10 Apr  6 16:30 sbin -> /usr/sbin/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           10 Apr  7 09:54 share -> /usr/share
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Apr  6 16:30 src -> /usr/src/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Apr 18 11:57 tmp -> /var/tmp
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Apr 18 11:57 var -> /var
[root@sparky local]# 

this eliminates those sorts of problems...
(all those arrows are symlinks btw, just in case you are new to this...)

	-RS


On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Ric Tibbetts wrote:

> Hi all...
> 	Well, I'm having this same problem with several things, and thought
> that since it first happened compiling balsa, I'd ask here first. 
> 	When I'm running configure, it fails with:
> 
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.12... 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 was incorrectly installed
> *** or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter case, you
> *** may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/bin/gtk-config
> configure: error: GTK not installed
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70749 (%build)
> 
> GTK "IS" installed!!! if I do an verify with RPM I gert
> rpm -qa | grep gtk
> 
> gtk+-devel-1.2.0-2
> gtk+10-1.0.6-4
> gtk+-1.2.0-2
> gtk-engines-0.5-8
> 
> 	So why can't balsa configure find it?????
> 	Gettin pretty frustrated!
> 
> 	Any guidance on this will, as always, be greatly apreciated!
> 
> 	thanks!
> 
> 		Ric
> 
> 
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