Can't compile xfce-utils-4.8.0

[Nick Schermer]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Ulli Horlacher
<framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> I am trying to compile xfce-4.8.0, but it fails in the first step:
>
> root at vms2:/opt/src/xfce-4.8/src/xfce-utils-4.8.0# CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/xfce-4.8
> (...)
> checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0... 2.20.1
> checking GTK_CFLAGS... -pthread -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12
> checking GTK_LIBS... -pthread -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0
> checking for libxfce4util-1.0 >= 4.8.0... not found
> *** The required package libxfce4util-1.0 was not found on your system.
> *** Please install libxfce4util-1.0 (atleast version 4.8.0) or adjust
> *** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> *** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
> *** pkg-config is able to find it.
>
> libxfce4util-1.0 needs libxfce4util-1.0 for compiling?!

libxfce4util != xfce-utils. You need the devel files of libxfce4util
and the correct path for pkgconfig, as the warning clearly says.

Nick