Re: Fwd: Error compiling control-center-2.17.1

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Tom,

In general, implicit external dependencies are a major issue with
building GARNOME. The DEPS-LIST is an incomplete attempt to keep track.

Looking at the configure file for gtk+, I see that it tests for libpng
automatically, but issues only a warning if libpng is absent.  What this
means is gtk+ still builds, but certain features, needed by other apps
are disabled. This is also true for libtiff and libjpeg.

Adding explicit requirements for these three libs may spare others some
grief:

        # explicitly require libpng, libtiff, and libjpeg
        CONFIGURE_ARGS += --with-libpng --with-libtiff --with-libjpeg


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 17:17 +0100, Tom Conneely wrote:
> I fixed the problem by recompiling gtk+ after editing the makefile
> (platform/gtk+/Makefile) by explicity adding libpng to the configure
> options. Now why wasn't this done properly first time round?
> 
> Just for clarity here is the configure_args line in my edited Makefile:
> 
> CONFIGURE_ARGS = $(DIRPATHS) --enable-explicit-deps=yes
> --with-xinput=yes --with-libpng
> 
> Thanks alot for you help, much appreciated
> -- 
> tom.c
> 
> The two fundamental questions:
> 1) What is it?
> 2) Why is it here?
> --Oliver Perks
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