xfce4 config error

William Bouterse bill at bouterse.com
Mon Mar 3 20:58:59 CET 2003


On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:57:47 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> transmitted these thoughts:

> You need to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH so that it incluldes the location of
> gdk-x11-2.0.pc.

Yes , I have a confession....I know what I "should" do, but not "how",
as I have messed things up more than once manipulating "PATH"statements.
Also am curious as the gdk-x11-2.0 libs appear to be in 
the correct place....

Am using modified Mandrake 9.0 if that makes a difference...
Thanks for the patience of the readers of this list....



....
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, William Bouterse wrote:
> > xfce4-cvs-snapshot.tar.bz2
> >
> > After a few years of basic config errors like this, one would think
> > I would finally decipher them more readily, However.....
> >
> > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> > checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.0.0 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0 pango >= 1.0.0 libxfcegui4-1.0 >= 0.0.14... Package gdk-x11-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdk-x11-2.0.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > Package 'gdk-x11-2.0', required by 'GTK+', not found
> >
> > [root at home1 xfwm4]# locate gdk-x11-2.0
> > /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
> > /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.0.6
> >
> > /etc/ld.so.conf shows;
> > /usr/X11R6/lib
> > /usr/lib/qt3/lib
> > /usr/local/lib
> > /usr/lib/freetds-0.53.1
> > /usr/lib
> > /usr/lib/wine
> >
> >
> > I will be the first to admit my incompetence :o)

 William Bouterse
 Talkeetna, Ak




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