[Freeciv-Dev] Re: problems with configuring the freeciv code to compile the gtk client

[Cyrill Planta <pla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Richards wrote:
> 
> But not only that.  Remove the config.cache and start again.  I had
> the same problem when I decided to start building for gtk.
> 
> Cheers,
> cjr


had no time to retry compiling earlier, but thanks that was the thing.

> Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Cyrill von Planta wrote:
> >
> > > hi recently tried to compile my own client
> > >
> > > however the configure script complains:
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.5... no
> > > *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
> > > *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> > > *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
> > > *** full path to gtk-config.
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > >
> > > i have installed gtk 1.2.10 and tried following things:
> > >
> > >  ./configure --with-gtk-prefix=/usr/include/gtk-1.2
> > >  ./configure --with-gtk-prefix=/usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/include
> > > ./configure --with-gtk-prefix=/usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk
> >
> > > export GTK_CONFIG=/usr/bin/gtk-config , this binary exists there
> > > export GTK_CONFIG=/usr/bin/
> >
> > Its ./configure --with-gtk-prefix=/usr
> >
> > gtk-config is a shell script, not a binary.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > ---
> > Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa