Re:How to set GTK_CONFIG

[joev_nylug mindspring com]

Thanks for the infor but neither worked. export gave me a message of declare -x GTK_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin and the /etc/profile already had PATH=/usr/local/bin; still got the same error when I ran ./configure that it can not find gtk-config.

Did I miss something?

Joe

Kerry <needles industrialmusic com> wrote:
> in bash,export  GTK_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin

to change the path system wide you can add /usr/local/bin to the PATH
variable in /etc/profile.
I don't think it gets read until you reboot or run some command that
I don't know.

Another issue, you'll probably have later is that /usr/local/lib
will not be in your library path. To fix that add
/usr/local/lib
to /etc/ld.so.conf
then run ldconfig to reread and process the file.

Other options are when compiling software to always put it where
the rest of youritems are by which I'm assuming is /usr
(that's true for RedHat and some others)
you do that with
./configure --prefix=/usr

Regards,

Kerry
 
> While trying to install GIMP I get this error:
> 
> *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
> *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to gtk-config. 
> 
> So I try to set the enviroment variable:
> 
> root joev:/home/joev/stuff/gimp-1.2.1 > set GTK_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin
> root joev:/home/joev/stuff/gimp-1.2.1 > set GTK_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/gtk-config
> 
> I then get this when I do root joev:/home/joev/stuff/gimp-1.2.1 > set:
> 
>  _=GTK_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin
>  _=GTK_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/gtk-config
>  
> Then run ./configure and get same error. Am I setting the enviroment variable wrong? How do I fix this?
> 
> Thanks
> Joe
> 
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