On Sunday 21 December 2003 09:48, Roland Hill wrote:

Hi list,

As way of background I am running SuSE 8.2 Pro.

Instead of using the gkrellm RPM, I am trying to install it from source.

The version I have is gkrellm-2.1.13.

On 'make' I get a lot of errors, so many that I have posted them here:

http://pl.net/~rnrhill/help.htm

I am not sure how to go about solving this and I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

This is the first compile time problem I have faced in my relatively short time with Linux so I would greatly appreciate some help, pointers or any other directions on how to interpret the output.

Ok, I have only ever done a kernel or 2 under Linux, but I have done some compiling with and without make in my time. Before I forget, thanks for not pasting your output into your post, - it does make one more favourably disposed, even though I am not going to fix this for you, I will only suggest an approach. First thing, get yourself the gnu 'make' and 'gcc' manuals from gnu.org - they won't solve or fix this problem for you, but in the long run, if you are going to compile stuff, it will help you understand the messages and the context of the messages in the build process. For the amount of grief your messages are showing, experience indicates you probably have a few gross errors, which manifest as large numbers of similar repeated errors. So ERRORs stop you getting output, WARNINGs alert you to be suspicious when you do get output. Start by eliminating errors from the top, leave fixing the warnings until you have fixed the errors [but do take note of clues from warnings]. The first error message arising from a gross error is often the best clue - many that follow are just consequences of the first error First you have: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/gkrellm-2.1.13/src' cc -Wall -O2 -I.. `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gthread-2.0` -DENABLE_NLS -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -c -o main.o main.c /bin/sh: line 1: pkg-config: command not found Make sure that from your command line, you can cd to /usr/local/ gkrellm-2.1.13/src. Make sure that you can run pkg-config from there [never mind the parameters, can you engage any response from the command?] - this suggests a pathing type of problem. Solve that problem. Do not think of solving anything else until that is resolved. If you can do it from the command line, find out why make does not do it. Make sure that the error above goes away. Fixing that problem might change the error messages so radically, that it is not worth me following through with any more, but suppose the next one remains: In file included from main.c:22: gkrellm.h:30:21: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory Find the gcc rules for locating include files. Find all instances of [something]/gtk/gtk.h on your system and ensure that the one you want to use and preferably only that one complies with the rule - or that the the one you want is at least first to comply. [and is it installed on your system etc.] But note that the fact that gtk/gtk.h has not been located is certainly responsible for most, if not all of the errors in gkrellm.h, and maybe further afield In summary, I would say that your problems are mainly to do with pathing. HTH Vince Littler

Roland Hill <rolandh@ak.planet.gen.nz> writes:

On 'make' I get a lot of errors, so many that I have posted them here:

http://pl.net/~rnrhill/help.htm

Install pkgconfig*.rpm and gtk2-devel*.rpm packages. If you need more packages then use pin or YAST to find them. e.g. $ pin pkg-config ... ./CD1/suse/i586/pkgconfig-0.15.0-104.i586.rpm: -rwxr-xr-x root root 106564 Sep 23 18:47 /usr/bin/pkg-config ... -- A.M.