Re: problems with configure script and compiling on fedora 24

[Peter Hutterer <peter hutterer who-t net>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:21:06PM -0700, Gabriel M. Elder wrote:
>    Hey all,
>
>    I'm trying to compile gnome control center v3.20.2 on fedora 24, using
>    the distro source rpm package (control-center-3.20.2-1.fc24.src.rpm). I
>    finally got all the requisite development library packages installed,
>    but the configure script fails with the message: "configure: error: The
>    Network, Bluetooth, Printers and Wacom panels are not optional on Linux
>    systems" and exit code 1. I'm running ./configure without any options;
>    specifically, I'm not --enable-ing or --disable-ing anything. Shouldn't
>    the "Network, Bluetooth, Printers and Wacom" stuff be enabled by
>    default, and therefore just generate the Makefile? I even tried
>    modifying the configure script to remove the section that's responsible
>    for this. That created a Makefile, but that barely made it 10 seconds
>    before bombing out with some other error when I tried to 'make' it, and
>    did not appear to be inclined to include those panels anyway. What am I
>    missing? What's next?

have a look at configure.ac, specifically search for "have_wacom". Looks like
you may have the dependencies installed but not those for the wacom plugin.
Same for network/bluetooth/..., config.log should have some information which
one is really missing, again start your search with have_wacom.

Cheers,
   Peter