Re: [Evolution] Compile

["Ron Eggler (Mobile)" <ron rideon ch>]

Am Freitag, den 27.01.2006, 05:46 +0100 schrieb guenther:
> > >   http://gnome.org/projects/evolution/download.shtml
> >
> > yup, okay, got it from there but while trying to install this I get:
> > [shell]
> > Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > Package 'gtk+-2.0', required by 'Gail', not found
> > configure: error: Package requirements (gail >= 1.1.0) were not met.
> > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> > installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> >
> > Alternatively you may set the GAIL_CFLAGS and GAIL_LIBS environment
> > variables
> > to avoid the need to call pkg-config.  See the pkg-config man page for
> > more details.
> > reg linux:~> 
> > [/shell]
> >
> > but I installed gail 1.2.8-4 with Yast2 so I guess the path thing is
> > not correct but how do I verify that and how do I correct it?
> > Thank you!
>
> Harish told you already for atk what to do, but it seems you didn't get
> the point you where supposed to understand. So here goes the same
> solution again, along with an explanation.
>
> You need the *devel* packages for GTK+ and gail. Devel packages are
> usually suffixed with -devel (RPM based distros) or -dev (Debian).
>
> Devel packages are necessary, when *building* applications that depend
> on it. They provide those things (like header files) that are needed
> during build time only. Whereas the regular (non-devel) packages provide
> the functionality to *use* the libraries and apps. This distinction is
> made to not waste space. Users of modern distros don't tend to build a
> lot of apps themselves.

Yes, thank you for reporting again but I got that, I installed following
packages:
gail 1.8.2-4
gail-debuginfo 1.8.2-4
gail-devel 1.8.2-4
libgail-gnome 1.1.0-4
libgail-gnome-debuginfo 1.1.0-4
libgail-gnome-devel 1.1.0-4

> As a rule of thumb, if anything breaks complaining about a particular
> dependency not being met, please try searching for the relevant devel
> package.

mhm

> Another note: By using 'locate' to hunt for the mentioned .pc file you
> would have noticed that file most likely to be not installed. A
> courageous 'find' would have shown this for sure. So unless you find
> that file, it definitely is not the path.

cannot find that file(gtk+-2.0.pc), not with locate, not with find and
not either with the KDE search engine...