Re: gnome-config not found

["Nitin Jain" <nitinj1981 gmail com>]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev yandex ru> wrote:
> 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/

Hi!
Thanks for your reply again. I'd a look at both gstreamer and the link
above... unfortunately, they seem to be too generic - my application
intends to provide just an oscilloscope environment, with a file-based
input. Resurrecting 'gscope' would be a large & challenging (for a
newbie) task too... but I think it should be worth the effort!?

Regards,
Nitin