no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH ?...I can't make.

CroMagnon · 10-03-2004, 09:24 PM

You can see it at the same link I gave you before - just download it from there (glibc-devel-2.3.3-98.i586.rpm)

jimothy05 · 10-03-2004, 09:40 PM

Code:

checking for pkg-config... (cached) no
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found.
*** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
configure: error:
*** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.

That happened a half minute into doing "./configure" I went back to that file list and installed "glib2-devel" and "glib2-2.2.3-117.i586.rpm", tried again and got the same error above. Things are moving along. What's next?

CroMagnon · 10-03-2004, 09:44 PM

Grab these two files as well:

glib2-devel-2.2.3-117.i586.rpm
pkgconfig-0.15.0-194.i586.rpm

If they complain about dependencies, a safe bet is to look on that same page again for the file.

jimothy05 · 10-03-2004, 09:53 PM

checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:
*** GTK+ 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GTK+
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GTK+ is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.

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Why is this so difficult? lol

CroMagnon · 10-03-2004, 10:17 PM

Oh now come on. I've been pretty patient, but you could at least try! I can understand you might be a newbie, but those error messages are right there in plain english.

When it said you needed gcc, you needed to install a package called gcc (fair enough on this one, your system told you you had it installed)
When it said you needed GLIB 2.0 development headers, you needed to install a package called glib2-dev.
When it said you needed pkgconfig, you needed to install a package called pkgconfig.

Now it says you need GTK2 development headers. What do you suppose you need to do?

The package name is gtk2-devel-2.2.4-121.i586.rpm - but please try a bit of common sense if it tells you you need something else.

jimothy05 · 10-05-2004, 01:04 AM

I've tried installing all the packages you've suggested and it's still caught up on something. I don't know what it could be.

CroMagnon · 10-05-2004, 02:33 AM

So what does it say?

jimothy05 · 10-07-2004, 12:51 AM

Code:

checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.2.3)
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:
*** GTK+ 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GTK+
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GTK+ is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.

Should I perhaps reformat the linux swap and linux partition and start all over? I don't know why compiling programs in SuSE would be so cumbersome.

(Sorry for the delayed response. I've been busy with school the past couple days.)

rm6990 · 10-08-2004, 01:09 AM

Try doing an FTP install of SUSE so you get the professional version. SUSE's website has instructions on how to do this.

jimothy05 · 10-08-2004, 01:20 AM

Do you mean download the latest ISO from the FTP.... or it installs itself on the computer via my broadband connection?

rm6990 · 10-08-2004, 02:10 AM

You download a small 30 MB ISO, and then it downloads the rest of the OS while it installs, and you get the pro version install of the personal

Why didn't you just download the RPM package of Gaim???? There should be one on SUSE's ftp server that is built for SUSE.

jimothy05 · 10-08-2004, 03:19 AM

did the ftp install.
same terminal error as before. =\

rm6990 · 10-08-2004, 09:49 AM

When installing, did you tell it to install the Default System, or did you actually go in to Detailed Selection and make sure all the development stuff was selected???

jimothy05 · 10-08-2004, 03:19 PM

i made sure it was selected

rm6990 · 10-08-2004, 03:37 PM

You do realize you can just go to Install and Remove Software and click on Gaim to install it?????