Re: ./configure failure, can't find glib on debian-arm buster 10.1
On Sat 21 Sep 2019 at 16:11:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 21 September 2019 14:41:58 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 02:36:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Saturday 21 September 2019 12:41:48 Henning Follmann wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 11:41:03AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > This seems to indicate a pkg-config problem:
> > > > >
> > > > > checking for glib... configure: error: no -- required until
> > > > > somebody makes glib optional
> > > > >
> > > > > glib-2 is of course installed but pkg-config apparentlly knows
> > > > > nothing about it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fix?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks all.
> > > >
> > > > apt install libglib2.0-dev
> > >
> > > ok, got that, then next is gtk. Which sudo apt can't find.
> >
> > For gtk, you probably need libgtk-3-dev.
> Wow, pulled in 44 other packages, but didn't help, exit message is:
>
> checking for GTK 2.4.0 or above... no
> configure: error: GTK2 missing. Install it or specify --disable-gtk to
> skip the parts of LinuxCNC that depend on GTK
>
> >
> > > And do we have a package manager that will run on an ssh -Y login,
> > > and give me results sometime this coming week? Add-remove software
> > > isn't it. In an hour I was not able to find gtk-devel stuff.
> >
> > I find that aptitude works well for everything I need.
>
> And I've had it totally destroy several systems. So I consider it
> dangerous, a tool of absolute last resort. And another 23 packages
> pulled in to install it.
>
> It would take me at least 4 days to recreate this pr4 install running
> this kernel, just to get ready to build linuxcnc.
>
> Aptitude has yet to warn me that installing *this* package will damned
> near format the drive. Until it does, and gives me a way to back out, I
> don't trust it.
You claimed to type q to quit, rather than confirming the installation/
removal of packages, using visual mode:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00508.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00516.html
But you didn't really have much idea of what visual aptitude was asking
because you were running it with an unsatisfactory terminal configuration:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00493.html
And you were adamant that aptitude could only run in visual mode
with the ncurses TextUI, and not as a CLI:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00501.html
And, of course, ncurses was then "35-45 years old, […] time it was put
out to pasture". Even xterm was "a waste of hd space, […] usable
[…] 30 years ago, but on today's $140 monitors its worthless":
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00490.html
So if you drive a car with your eyes closed, you're not likely
to end up where you wanted to. I think Lisi found you out there.
Cheers,
David.
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