Re: gnome-config not found

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

В Сбт, 12/07/2008 в 14:34 -0600, Nitin Jain пишет:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev yandex ru> wrote:
> >
> > В Птн, 11/07/2008 в 11:04 -0600, Nitin Jain пишет:
> >> Hi!
> >> I'm a newbie on this forum as well as to the world of GTK, so
> >> apologies for any mistakes in prior.
> >> I'm trying to install an old application (from source) that uses GTK
> >> and GNOME graphical toolkits - however, while running the configure
> >> script, I get a
> >> "configure: error: Program gnome-config not found".
> >> Browsing uptil now has yielded the info that `gnome-config' used to be
> >> a part of `pkg-config' but was axed... so, I am not sure if merely
> >> changing the configure script (replacing `gnome-config' with
> >> `'pkg-config') would help? As such, I have installed the gtk-devel,
> >> libgnomeui packages (and am on SuSE 10.2).
> >
> > You probably need to install GNOME 1.4 desktop from a compatibility
> > repository:
> >
> > ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/GNOME:/GNOME1/openSUSE_10.2/i586
> >
> > for gnome-config you need to install the package
> >
> > gnome-libs-devel
> >
> >> Also, in case it's not easy to override the dependancy on
> >> gnome-config, then can you please tell me some alternative(s)? How
> >> easy would it be, for a newbie, to port the API that makes use of the
> >> newer *stuff* ?
> >
> > Well, it's quite a complicated work. What exact program are you talking
> > about, probably we can help to port it to GNOME2 quickly.
> >
> 
> Hi!
> Many thanks for your prompt response.
> The app I am trying to port is basically a software oscilloscope
> library `gscope' that was written way back in 2001 - here's the link:
> http://gscope.sourceforge.net/
> 
> As of now, I just (blatantly) substituted gnome-config (and
> GNOME_CONFIG) with pkg-config (and PKG_CONFIG) throughout the
> configure script, which gives the following:
> 
> checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
> Package gnomeui was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gnomeui.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gnomeui' found
> Package gnomeui was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gnomeui.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gnomeui' found
> 
> So, as per the advice on this link:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2005-July/011663.html
> I changed
> gnomeui to libgnomeui-2.0
> in the configure script again.
> This seemed to work, with the above 'No package' warnings vanished....
> however, doing `make' is still unsuccessful and gives this error:
> cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status gscopeconfig.h
> Usage: ./config.status [--recheck] [--version] [--help]
> make: *** [stamp-h1] Error 1
> 
> Could you please throw some light what should I try, now?
> 
> Thanks again!

Oh, I'd better drop this project completely and created something based
on gstreamer like existing libvisual plugins:

http://libvisual.sourceforge.net/