-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: problems with configure script and compiling on fedora 24
From: Peter Hutterer <
peter hutterer who-t net>
Date: Thu, February 16, 2017 1:19 am
To: "Gabriel M. Elder" <
gabriel tekgnowsys com>
Cc:
gnomecc-list gnome org
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