On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 12:09, sime wrote:

I just installed 2.0pre2 and now attempting gimp-gap 1.3.25, in configure it is asking me for gimp-2.0, should i just sym link that to gimp-1.3. Heres the error:

checking for gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0 gimpthumb-2.0... Package gimp-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gimp-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gimp-2.0' found

If you installed gimp 2.0pre2 from source, you would have had the gimp-2.0.pc file installed for you. So it sounds like you installed from some kind of packaging system. In that case, you need to also install the development half of that package (which may be called gimp-devel or something similar).

You cannot get around this with any symlink tricks or anything. You *must* have gimp-2.0.pc and all the corresponding development files installed.

If you did build gimp-2.0pre2 from source, then, if you installed it under $prefix, the .pc file will be in $prefix/lib/pkgconfig/ and in that case you should set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH to that directory (see the manual page for pkg-config if you want more information).

If you are still having trouble, despite my very confusing instructions, by all means post a reply. Maybe include some information about what system you are running and how you installed the Gimp (from packages? from source? it just showed up on your machine one afternoon? :-) ).

Cheers, Malcolm

On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 02:09, sime wrote:

checking for gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0 gimpthumb-2.0... Package gimp-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gimp-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gimp-2.0' found

...and did you try the above?

Most likely you installed gimp-2.0pre2 in prefix /usr/local (default).

If that is the case you need to do the following:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure

followed by:

make su -c "make install"

or similar.

Sincerely, ./Brix

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:10:18 +1100 sime wrote:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

Bingo! That did it.

Alternatively

cp /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/whatever.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/

which fixed all my config failures

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 16:41, Owen wrote:

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:10:18 +1100 sime wrote:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

Bingo! That did it.

Alternatively

cp /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/whatever.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/

which fixed all my config failures

And runs the risk of polluting your system files with locally installed junk. If you are installing a package under /usr/local, then you should keep all of its stuff under /usr/local so that it can be easily removed and stays out of the way of system (distribution) packages.

Malcolm