Re: GNUstep fails to build on SUSE 9.2
M Daser <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.user |
|---|---|
| Organization | Siemens Business Services |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: > On 2005-04-26 12:11:42 +0100 BK <[email protected]> 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