Re: [gNewSense-users] IceCat 5: Update failure message

[Sam Geeraerts]

Snoopys Woodstock wrote:
> configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 
> gtk+-unix-print-2.0 glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gdk-x11-2.0) not met; 
> consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your 
> libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
>
> I don't know what to do with such information. I thougt it was missed
>  packages and I tried to get them but it doesn't work.

If you need libraries for compiling you usually need to install -dev
packages. It is not always obvious which packages you need and it can
sometimes take multiple configure attempts before you get them all.

> I try to go on with next step.
>
> > ## Start compiling. $ make
>
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

The configure step needs to be successful before you can go further.