Re: "X includes" missing

[Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:59:48 +0200
> From: Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: "X includes" missing
> Resent-Date: Mon,  6 Apr 2009 20:01:21 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Andrew Reid wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 05 April 2009 14:09:50 Itay wrote:
> > > I am trying to install the latest stable digikam (0.9.5) from source.
> > > (Because stock digikam on lenny, 0.9.4,  has some issues in handling
> > > tiffs.)
> > >
> > > ./configure bailed with:
> > >
> > >  checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. \
> > >  Please check your installation and add the correct paths!
> > >
> > > Could you please get me started: where should I find
> > > "X includes", and what would be the debian-way to add them?
> >
> >   The debian way is to have include files in a package
> > whose prefix is the same as the libraries, but with the suffix
> > "-dev".
> >
> >   In this case, installing the package "xorg-dev" and its dependencies
> > will almost certainly solve this problem.
> >
> > -- A
>
> Hello,
>
> I think it's really strange. I don't know how familiar with the make process
> Itay is, but as far as I know (and I think I'm not a newbie) one should use
> pkg-config to get the proper setup. So, look what happens running
> pkg-config here (system is debian lenny just recently upgraded from sarge
> over edge)

Using Andrew's advice helped me to pass through two barriers: the 
above-mentioned "X includes" and a similar complaint about QT 
libraries.

Then comes the 3rd one:

checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed.
This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!

I got the same message when running a bare configure and
configure --prefix=/usr  ('/usr' is a guess).

To get a clue I tried using pkg-config (of which I learned from you):

bilbo:~# pkg-config --cflags kdebase
Package kdebase was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `kdebase.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'kdebase' found

Hmmmm, aptitude insists that I have kdebase installed:

bilbo:~# aptitude show kdebase
Package: kdebase
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6
...

What now?
How could I satisfy ./configure's hunger for  KDE headers?

Thanks,
Itay


> ln::25 emanoil@lisa:~$ pkg-config --cflags xorg-server
> -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1
> ln::26 emanoil@lisa:~$ pkg-config --libs xorg-server
>
> ln::27 emanoil@lisa:~$ pkg-config --libs x11
> -lX11
> ln::28 emanoil@lisa:~$ pkg-config --cflags xorg-server
> -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1
>
> You notice that the thing is reporting libraries for one package and
> includes (cflags) for the other.
>
> Why?!
>
> I've never tried to compile (except kernel and alsa) on this system since
> upgrade. In fact, Itay, when I started compiling with debian it took some
> time to get use to and learn fixing things like this, don't give up ;-).

Thanks for the encouragement -- I need it at the moment :-)
Itay

> regards