Re: Unable to locate module error.

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 16, 2004, at 9:51 AM, Neil Jones wrote:

> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 20:13, muppet wrote:
> > please, please, use gtk2-perl.  you don't have to install to your 
> > whole
> > system, there are instructions in the tarballs' READMEs for how to do 
> > a
> > private installation.  (hint, PERL5LIB env var)
>
> I am afraid I don't know what your hint means.

ok, less terse:  in the README files for each module contain text that 
explains how to use "perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/some/place" to install 
modules to a nonstandard (e.g., writable by you) place, and how to use 
the environment variable PERL5LIB to tell perl how to find them (so you 
don't need to use -I/some/place/lib...  to each script).


> Cpan Gtk2
>
> fails because of dependencies

interesting.  i knew there were problems with CPANPLUS, but i thought 
it worked pretty well from CPAN.


> They will all install except
> cpan ExtUtils::PkgConfig

if ExtUtils::PkgConfig doesn't install, none of the other ones (Glib, 
Gtk2, Gnome2, etc) can build, so i don't know what you mean by "they 
will all install except".


> Which gives.
...
> t/1....ok 1/7sh: line 1: pkg-config: command not found
> t/1....NOK 2#     Failed test (t/1.t at line 21)
> t/1....NOK 3#     Failed test (t/1.t at line 22)
> sh: line 1: pkg-config: command not found
> t/1....ok 4/7sh: line 1: pkg-config: command not found
> sh: line 1: pkg-config: command not found

there's your problem -- you didn't install pkg-config.

pkg-config is a tool used by the GNOME project and many others to 
maintain library dependency information.  ExtUtils::PkgConfig uses this 
tool to read the *.pc files installed by the various gtk+ and GNOME 
libraries so that you can compile the C code that backs up the 
Gtk2-Perl extensions.  in fact, you need it to compile *any* software 
that uses the GNOME libraries.  you can install pkg-config from your 
vendor's packages and ExtUtils::PkgConfig will be quite happy.

i thought i made ExtUtils::PkgConfig's Makefile.PL die if pkg-config 
couldn't be found, but apparently i never committed it.  sorry.

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