On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:46:44 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:33:49 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > >> Eduardo, >> >> Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially >> so quickly? >> >> Randy Kramer >> >> On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>> On Qui, 04 Ago 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: >>> > Yesterday, my build started failing with messages like this: >>> > >>> > "Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. >>> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc' to the >>> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-2.0' found >>> > make: Nothing to be done for `all'." >>> >>> The only thing you need is the gtk+2 2.0 devel package: >>> >>> libgtk2.0-dev >>> >>> apt-file search gtk+-2.0.pc indicates to which package that file >>> belongs. > > Short answer: Because when you are running ./configure and see a message > saying "Package xyz was not found in the pkg-config search path", it > usually means (in Debian) that you need to install xyz*-dev* (asterisks > are for emphasis). xyz alone is not enough for the build.
To amplify: Read the error message and (as Eduardo says) do an apt-file search for the missing *file*. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j1etah$hrh$2...@dough.gmane.org
