[ale] Strangenes

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Aug 17 16:29:43 EDT 2005


Vernard Martin wrote:
> I'm running RHEL4 and I was trying to install a package that uses 
> ./configure
> I got the following error:
> 
>  checking for gtk-config... no
> configure: error: * GTK not found on this system, unable to build *
> 
> Now I know that gtk is on the system as RedHat Fedora both use the GNOME 
> environment heavily and GTK is used all over the place. But exactly what 
> package provides the gtk-config program/script? And is there a nice way 
> to disable this check? I looked throught he configure script and didn't 
> see one there.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated

It's likely that it doesn't know where to find gtk-config.  On RHEL4 
gtk-config is in /usr/bin, do you see it there?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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