> > I believe the old gtk-config tells the compiler which cflags to use and > > which libraries are needed but I am afraid my current level of knowledge > > cannot sort out this mess :-( > > You could reinstall GTK+ from source, but isn't that what Stuart's CD > was trying to do?
Just a nit-picking clarification. I apologize for picking nits in advance! My CD does try to install some of the important dependencies required for gEDA, such as guile, wxGTK, pkg-config, and some others. However, it doesn't try to install GTK. This is by design. I figure that if your system doesn't have GTK -- and in particular the GTK header files -- it's too complicated for my simple Python program to install, and your installation is broken anyway. Therefore, I trust the user to get a working GTK environment installed before running my CD. Unfortunately, this seems to lead to all kind of grief, particularly for SuSE personal, and related distributions. The "personal" editions of many distributions stupidly don't include header files required to build GTK based applications. I don't know why SuSE did this; perhaps they thought that the freely-downloadable "personal" distributions would only be used by grandmothers to web surf and send e-mail to the grandkids, and that folks wanting to do real work would buy the "professional" edition. Or something like that. Fortunately, I understand that SuSE-9.3 (now Novell) includes all the .h files that you need for real work. Caveat: I haven't tested this myself. Anyway, if you want to use the CD Installer, you have three choices: 1. Make sure you use it on a "professional" or "workstation" edition of your distribution (SuSE & Fedora both have limited "personal" editions which should be avoided). 2. Pre-install the latest GTK from source on your machine. 3. Use the installer on Debian, which seems to have all GTK header files by default. HTH, Stuart
