Re: gtk 2.4.x installation

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- David Neèas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:


> is finally a situation where Sergei's scripts could come
> handy -- if Gtk+ 2.10 can be built and works with XFree86
> 4.1, which I would not bet on).

Slightly (?) offtopic (?).

I have just stumbled across my "favourite" failure - 'configure' is OK,
but 'make' fails, this time for 'vte'.

It happened to be that the 'configure' DOES notice missing X-development
libraries, unsets some flag, generates 'Makefile', and then 'make' fails.

Another example - 'ncurses'. 'configure' happily accepts '--enable-ext-colors',
and 'make' happily fails afterwards. Oh, IIRC, it needs a C++ compiler, just
'configure' doesn't check that one is isntalled on the system.

Earlier I had an Email exchange with a guy who tried to use my script
on MacOS - again, 'configure' is OK, but 'make' fails - IIRC for jpeg
library.

Or, 'make' is OK, but 'make check' fails - I think, for 'libpng' - that is,
again, on MacOS.

Dear FOSS guys/girls, it's really frustrating - I mean, 'configure' scripts
which do not check all the necessary prerequisites.

And this fact severy undermines the statemet about high quality of FOSS.

And I have no time and energy to file all these bugs.

And, for example, to build 'expect' I had to revert 'bash' from version 3.2
(current) to version 3.0 (!) - otherwise 'configure' of 'expat' fails with
syntax error.

On topic (?) - 'gtk+-2.10.6' depends on 'cups', but 'configure' doesn't check
it, so if 'cups' is not installed, 'make' starts failing with

"
gtkprintbackendcups.c:28:23: error: cups/cups.h: No such file or directory
gtkprintbackendcups.c:29:27: error: cups/language.h: No such file or directory
gtkprintbackendcups.c:30:23: error: cups/http.h: No such file or directory
gtkprintbackendcups.c:31:22: error: cups/ipp.h: No such file or directory
In file included from gtkprintbackendcups.c:47:
gtkprintercups.h:25:22: error: cups/ppd.h: No such file or directory
"

- now that I know this 'cups' is listed as a dependency of 'gtk+'.

...

On a positive note - this is what my script (unreleased, but readily available
upon request version) builds out of the box:

aspell-0.60.4
atk-1.12.1
at-spi-1.6.6
audiofile-0.2.6
autoconf-2.61
autogen-5.8.7
bash-3.0
bash-3.1
bash-3.2
bc-1.06
bzip2-1.0.3
Cairo-1.02
cairo-1.2.4
cups-1.2.7-source
curl-7.15.5
dejagnu-1.4.4
diacanvas2-0.14.4
ecasound-2.4.4
ecasound-2.4.5
esound-0.2.36
expat-2.0.0
expat-2006-11-24
expect-5.44.1
ExtUtils-Depends-0.205
ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.07
fftw-3.1.2
flac-1.1.2
fontconfig-2.4.1
freetype-2.2.1
gail-1.8.11
gaim-2.0.0beta5
gcc-3.4.6
gcc-4.1.1
GConf-2.14.0
gettext-0.16.1
glade-2.12.1
Glib-1.142
glib-1.2.10
glib-2.12.4
glib-2.12.5
glib-2.12.6
gmp-4.2.1
Gnome2-1.040
Gnome2-Canvas-1.002
Gnome2-Dia-0.04
Gnome2-GConf-1.032
Gnome2-Print-0.951
Gnome2-VFS-1.061
Gnome2-Vte-0.08
Gnome2-Wnck-0.13
gnome-keyring-0.4.9
gnome-vfs-2.14.2
gnutls-1.4.5
gst-plugins-base-0.10.7
GStreamer-0.09
gstreamer-0.10.8
gtk+-1.2.10
gtk+-2.10.6
Gtk2-1.141
Gtk2-GladeXML-1.006
Gtk2-Html2-0.04
Gtk2-TrayIcon-0.04
gtk-engines-2.8.0
gtkspell-2.0.11
guile-1.8.1
jack-audio-connection-kit-0.102.20
jpegsrc.v6b
ladspa_sdk
lame-3.97
lesstif-0.93.18
lesstif-0.95.0
libao-0.8.6
libart_lgpl-2.3.17
libavc1394-0.5.3
libbonobo-2.14.0
libbonoboui-2.14.0
libfreebob-1.0.0
libgcrypt-1.2.3
libglade-2.6.0
libgnome-2.14.1
libgnomecanvas-2.14.0
libgnomecups-0.2.1
libgnomeprint-2.12.1
libgnomeprintui-2.12.1
libgnomeui-2.16.1
libgpg-error-1.4
libgtkhtml-2.6.3
libid3tag-0.15.1b
libIDL-0.8.7
libiec61883-1.1.0
libmad-0.15.1b
libogg-1.1.3
liboil-0.3.9
libpng-1.2.12
libraw1394-1.2.1
libsamplerate-0.1.2
libsndfile-1.0.17
libtasn1-0.3.6
libtool-1.5.22
libvorbis-1.1.2
libwnck-2.14.2
libxml2-2.6.26
libxslt-1.1.17
lzo-2.02
m4-1.4.8
madplay-0.15.2b
make-3.80
Module-Build-0.2805
Module-Pluggable-3.1
mpfr-2.2.1
mpg123-0.61
ncurses-5.6
nedit-5.5-src
opencdk-0.5.9
openssl-0.9.8d
ORBit2-2.14.2
pango-1.14.8
pa_snapshot_v18
popt-1.6.4
readline-5.1
scrollkeeper-0.3.14
sox-12.18.2
speex-1.1.12
tcl8.4.14-src
texinfo-4.8a
tiff-3.8.2
tk8.4.14-src
vorbis-tools-1.1.1
vte-0.14.1
wxGTK-2.8.0
wxX11-2007-01-01
wxX11-2.6.3
zlib-1.2.3

--Sergei.

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