Re: building without gtk

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:49, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I'm running my nightly builds on RHL 9, which has an older gtk.  I
> get:
> 
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4 gthread-2.0 >= 2.2 libart-2.0... Requested 
> 'gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4' but version of GTK+ is 2.2.1
>                                                                               
>   
> configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4 gthread-2.0 >= 2.2 
> libart-2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment 
> variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find 
> them.
>
> However, I don't configure with --enable-gtk-peer.  So, I think this
> is a bug.

No --enable-gtk-peer has been the default since a long time. People
don't want a broken AWT by default. If you really cannot update your
gtk+ installation you will have to configure with --disable-gtk-peer.

Maybe the above error message can be improved to mention this?

Cheers,

Mark

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