On Saturday 21 September 2019 14:41:58 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 02:36:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 21 September 2019 12:41:48 Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 11:41:03AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > This seems to indicate a pkg-config problem: > > > > > > > > checking for glib... configure: error: no -- required until > > > > somebody makes glib optional > > > > > > > > glib-2 is of course installed but pkg-config apparentlly knows > > > > nothing about it. > > > > > > > > Fix? > > > > > > > > Thanks all. > > > > > > apt install libglib2.0-dev > > > > ok, got that, then next is gtk. Which sudo apt can't find. > > For gtk, you probably need libgtk-3-dev. Wow, pulled in 44 other packages, but didn't help, exit message is:
checking for GTK 2.4.0 or above... no configure: error: GTK2 missing. Install it or specify --disable-gtk to skip the parts of LinuxCNC that depend on GTK > > > And do we have a package manager that will run on an ssh -Y login, > > and give me results sometime this coming week? Add-remove software > > isn't it. In an hour I was not able to find gtk-devel stuff. > > I find that aptitude works well for everything I need. And I've had it totally destroy several systems. So I consider it dangerous, a tool of absolute last resort. And another 23 packages pulled in to install it. It would take me at least 4 days to recreate this pr4 install running this kernel, just to get ready to build linuxcnc. Aptitude has yet to warn me that installing *this* package will damned near format the drive. Until it does, and gives me a way to back out, I don't trust it. And not even aptitude cannot find gtk-2-devel. Next? > Regards, > > -Roberto Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
