Shouldn't the garnome installer be downloading and installing libpng and
glitz packages itself?

Since neither of those were on my system.  I had to go and manually install
them outside of the garnome installer.

Same is true for the "gettext" package.

-b



On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 18:56 -0500, Brad Allison wrote:
> > Solved this one as well.  Removed the ~/garnome/bin/pkg-config and let
> > it use the fink installed pkg-config instead
>
> This is the wrong fix.
>
> cairo explicitly depends on pkg-config (see LIBDEPS), and usually there
> at least has been a valid need to do so. Anyway, you just deliberately
> used a systems executable, whereas the GARNOME provided ones are
> preferable.
>
> >  (/opt/local/bin/pkg-config instead of ~/garnome/bin/pkg-config"
> > That enabled it to see all the libpng files I have installed already
> > (installed with fink).
>
>
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Brad Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >         Here's what I find most bizarre about this bug... it says
> >         "Could not find libpng in the pkg-config search path" and yet
> >         when I run "pkg-config -cflags -libs libpng" it works fine
> >         from the command line...  But it's failing on the make
> >         paranoid install:
> >
> >         checking for cairo's PNG backend...
> >         configure: WARNING: Could not find libpng in the pkg-config
> >         search path
>
> Right, so libpng couldn't be found in your PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Most systems
> are happy with the stuff set in gar.conf.mk. Since your libpng lives in
> a rather strange place, the easiest and IMHO best fix is, to simply
> adjust PKG_CONFIG_PATH in gar.conf.mk and append your local dirs there.
>
>  guenther
>
>
> >         # pkg-config --cflags --libs libpng
> >         -I/usr/X11/include/libpng12  -L/usr/X11/lib -lpng12 -lz -lm
>
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>
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