Re: GNUstep fails to build on SUSE 9.2

[M Daser]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 2005-04-26 12:11:42 +0100 BK <bk_mailinglists@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to build GNUstep on SUSE 9.2 (virgin install with all devl
>> packages installed) but it seems to me that GNUstep doesn't like SUSE,
>> at least not 9.2.
>>
>> If I try to use the gnustep-startup package, it complains about
>> missing JPEG, TIFF and PNG libraries, which is nonsense because those
>> libraries are installed and they do show up both in Yast utility or
>> with rpm -i. I guess the GNUstep check is broken.
> 
> 
> Are you *sure* it's nonsense?
> 
> The reason I ask is that it's quite a common error to assume that
> development packages of libraries are installed, when in fact only the
> runtime libraries are installed.  To build software (such as gnustep)
> you need the development packages which include headers etc.
> 


This is probably the problem ... I had the same trouble a while ago, and
installing the development packages for the libraries helped.

I think this is different with different Linux distros: some have
separate runtime and development packages, and some don't. At least this
was my impression.

Good luck!
    Martin