[Solved] Compiling a Gnome app / GTHREAD or XDamage error

[Bastian Venthur <expires-2007@venthur.de>]

Bastian Venthur wrote:
> Joe Wreschnig wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 18:20 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote:
>>> checking for GTHREAD... configure: error: Byzanz requires GThread-2.0 >=
>>>  and XDamage >= 1.0 to compile.
>>> make: *** [config.status] Error 1
>>>
>>> Currently my package build-depends on: debhelper (>= 4.0.0),
>>> autotools-dev, libexpat1-dev, libxdamage-dev, libpanelappletmm-2.6-dev,
>>> intltool, libgtk2.0-dev
>>>
>>> I guess the problem has something to do with GTHREAD, but I have no Idea
>>> which package provides it or if it's already in my build-depends, why
>>> config does not recognize it.
>> No, the error message sucks, it doesn't distinguish between two
>> different (completely unrelated) failures. I reported this earlier
>> as http://bugs.debian.org/358253 when I was trying to get Byzanz
>> compiled.
> 
> Ah, thanks for the hint! Do you know a workaround for this problem, so I
> can compile the package?

I found the solution myself, just put

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:$(PKG_CONFIG_PATH)"

before your config-part in debian/rules. Works for me :)


Thanks again

Bastian