gnupic: Re: [gnupic] gpsim installation problem
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] gpsim installation problem
From:
Scott Dattalo ####@####.####
Date:
4 Jan 2006 00:20:38 +0000
Message-Id: <43BB144D.4020102@dattalo.com>
S W Collier wrote:
> Hello and a Happy New year to all.
> I am climbing the learning curve of Linux and am trying to install
> gpsim. I have successfully installed gpasm,gplib and gplink but I am
> having trouble with gpsim. I think gtk+extra has installed OK, at
Hi Stan,
Xiofan asked a very similar question a couple of days ago. I haven't
answered yet, so maybe I can get both questions at once.
<snip>
> enabling gui support
> linking with GTK+ 2.x
> checking for pkg-config... no
> configure: error: Cannot find pkg-config
>
> and it returns to the console. Where do I get this missing file and is
> this the total problem??
'pkg-config' is a program that can describe various things about an
installed package. It was created by the gtk project where they used to
have similar packages like gtk-config, glib-config, etc. There may be a
couple of reasons pkg-config is not installed on your system. One is
because you don't have the 'devel' version of gtk installed. Another is
that it is present but not in executable path. Another is that the BSD
installer has a bug and didn't install it.
On Linux x86_64bit systems, there is a problem finding the ".pc" file
that pkg-config takes as it's input, but I don't think this is your's
and Xiofan's problem (yet).
Is there a file called pkg-config on your system?
Scott
