[desktop-discuss] Fresh b72 install - GTK+ 2.0 development headers required for Pidgin build

[Shawn Walker]

On 17/09/2007, Iain Curtain <iain.curtain at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi, I recently installed b72 and I was trying to build Pidgin 2.2 and get the following error:
>
> You must have the GTK+ 2.0 development headers installed to compile Pidgin.
>
> I was able to build previously (was an old b42 luupgraded to b70), what's the best place to get the GTK development headers from?
>
> thanks

It because of the x11 in the pkgconfig.pc for gtk, and other packages:

$ /usr/bin/pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags
Package x11 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `x11.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'x11', required by 'Xrender', not found

This is a known issue that I believe is being resolved in the sfw
compilation. Look on the sfw discuss list for more info, I think.

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