gtk development packages

[Erik Harrison]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:42:58 -0000, Niraj Patel
<Niraj.Patel at chasedevere.co.uk> wrote:
>  
> I just made the jump from 4.0.6 to 4.2, and I must say congrats to all the
> developers. Well done. If you ever in London and you see me I'll buy a pint
> to say thanks ;) 
>   
> This might not be the right place to ask this question, but I will give it a
> go. I am trying to get gtk 2.6 installed to run along with my new xfce
> build. I know xfce doesn't need that high a version, but I may as well. 
>   
> I need the development packages so pkgconfig 'has' the relevant .pc file.
> But I can't find the devel source for gtk 2.6 to compile and make. Either I
> am being stupid or there is some special way you can compile the normal
> source to get the .pc file, headers etc. 

Just building gtk should be sufficient.  The only time you should need
a "devel" package is when your distributor splits the binaries from
the headers. If you are building from source you should be fine.

>   
> Please help! Cheers, 
>   
> Niraj
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-Erik