174756 - The newer versions of gtk no longer use gtk-config but instead use pkg-config. Cannot build.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Anthony Gialluca]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5
Build Identifier: mozilla-source-1.2a

The Newer versions of gtk (ie 2.0.6) have moved away from using gtk-config and
instead now use pkg-config. As a result several necessary libraries are not
found by the Configure script.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Get latest gtk and glib.
2.Try to configure.


Actual Results:  
Recieved the following even though gtk ver 2.0.6 is installed. I have verified
that there is no gtk-cofnig with this version of gtk:
<output truncated>
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... 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.
*** GTK+ is available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
configure: error: Test for GTK failed.



I would expect that any OS's that depend on gtk-config would be impacted.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174706 ***

Comment 2

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Actually, this isn't a dupe.  The build defaults to looking for gtk1.2.  If you
want to use gtk2, you need to specify the --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 option
which will then use pkg-config to look for gtk2.

Comment 3

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

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Comment 4

[Jon Granrose]

v invalid.