gtk+ and gtk-config (where do I get gtk-config?)

netikus · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Ohio

I just emerged the gtk+ package so that I could install sylpheed and ethereal.

However when I try to emerge sylpheed (the stable one) it complains about not finding gtk-config. It does seem as if this file, gtk-config, is not present on my system. But please read on.

Gentoo is running on an 6 year old Compaq laptop that works fine, however I was not able to get XFree 4.2.1 running, as a result I had to manually compile the last 3.x XFree release. X now works just fine.

This also means that I run every emerge session with the "--nodeps" option since it would otherwise download and compile XFree 4.2.1 (which is not an options as this takes 24hrs+ on this laptop + consumes lots of HD space).

Where would I get gtk-config? I thought that it was included with gtk+ which I did emerge, gtk-test worked well in X.

It took me already more than a week to get this far (of course with breaks

) and the gtk-config seems to be one of the last obstacles ... !

Thanks for any help.

Ingmar.

DuF · Advocate Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2527 Location: Paris

I will try to help you, I have gtk-config an when I search which package installed it on my gentoo I have the following results :

netikus · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Ohio

Well I *just* installed the GTK+ so I doubt that this is going to solve the problem.

I guess I must be missing some kind of dependency and gtk-config wasn't built because of that? I have no idea.

It's just that every app that builds on the GTK requires this script file, annoying.

Thanks anyway,
Ingmar.