Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:21:11 +1300
> Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> 
> On Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 9:15 AM NZDT, Yuri Khan wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 11:53, Jeremy Baxter <jtbx@disroot.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> > > (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> > > and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> > >
> > >     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
> > >     configure: error:
> > >
> > > I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> > > running the Void Linux distribution
> >
> > Do you have only runtime libraries installed, or development packages
> > also? I’m not familiar with Void Linux, but, for example, in
> > Debian-based distributions, files needed to *run* software using GTK+
> > go in the libgtk-3-0 package, while files needed to *build* such
> > software go in libgtk-3-dev.
> >
> > Sorry for the noise if you are already aware of the distinction and do
> > have development packages installed.
> 
> Yes, I do have the development packages installed.

Please show the portions of config.log that test for the above
components: gtk+-3.0 and glib-2.0.  They could explain why the
configure script fails in your case.