Re: gnome-core compilation problems

[Nils Philippsen <nils redhat de>]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, François Chenais wrote:

> because of the same problem, I've compiled control-center-1.4.0.1
> but configure says...
>
> ...
> checking for GdkPixbuf library >= 0.7.0... found
> checking for esd-config... /opt/gnome/bin/esd-config
> checking for ESD - version >= 0.2.5... yes
> checking for imlib-config... /usr/local/bin/imlib-config
> checking for IMLIB - version >= 1.8.2... yes
> checking for gnome-vfs library >= 0.9... ./configure: gnome-vfs-config: command not found
> ./configure: gnome-vfs-config: command not found
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> configure: error: Did not find GdkPixbuf installed
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[NB: This seems to be a cut'n'paste typo in configure.in ]

>
> aarrrggghhhhh !:-) what is gnome-vfs-config ???

It's a part of gnome-vfs (who would have thought that), a virtual file
system lib for gnome (so that you can virtually chdir() into a tar.gz file
or an FTP URL, well more or less -- I know this explanation sucks). So you
need the package gnome-vfs-devel or your distribution-specific equivalent.

Cheers, Nils
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