[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Solaris 8 installation problem. (PR#754)

[andreas landmark <andreas.landmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:56:09PM -0700, Minkus, Robert, CTR produced this 
golden nugget:
> Hello,
> 
> I found your site while surfing the web and downloaded freeciv to install on
> my Sun Ultra-1 running Solaris 8.
> 
> I have tried most of the suggestions in the INSTALL file, and did a fresh
> install of GNUmake, GNUgcc, Xaw, and Gtk+.
> 
> Below is the output from the configure command, any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert Minkus
> 
> checking for which client to compile:
> checking for gtk-config... /usr/local/bin/gtk-config
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.1... 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 was incorrectly
> installed
> *** or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter case,
> you
> *** may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/local/bin/gtk-config

You didn't say which version of GTK you installed?

If you've got >= 1.2.1 try giving the full path to gtk to the configure
script and/or edit your gtk-config...

(check your libpaths aswell)
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