Cant "make"

[shankhs]

I downloaded gnomecc and followed the instructions:

Code:

shankhs@shankhs:~/Desktop/shankhs/gnomecc/gnome-color-chooser-0.2.3$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for DEPS... configure: error: Package requirements (gtkmm-2.4 >= 2.8.0 libglademm-2.4 >= 2.6.0 libgnome-2.0 >= 2.16.0  libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.14.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.6.0 ) were not met:

No package 'gtkmm-2.4' found
No package 'libglademm-2.4' found
No package 'libgnome-2.0' found
No package 'libgnomeui-2.0' found
No package 'libxml-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DEPS_CFLAGS
and DEPS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

shankhs@shankhs:~/Desktop/shankhs/gnomecc/gnome-color-chooser-0.2.3$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

I couldnt make the file....
PLZ anybody help me...
I have ubuntu 8.04 and I am not so affluent with shell programming.

[JackTheDipper]

Hi, shankhs!

You're missing the mentioned packages, you could install them and then configure && make again (Ubuntu needs the -dev versions of those packages, like libxml2-dev, etc).

A lot easier would be to just install GNOME Color Chooser directly from your Ubuntu repository: type 'sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser" or use the package manager of your choice (e.g. synaptic) to install it.

Good luck,
Jack ;-)

[Exec]

Hi there Mr. jack, you need to add #include <string.h> to some of your files or it won't compile with newer gcc. It's a bit tedious to do it manually and not very userfriendly

Also, about the "configure" script, could make it ask for permission to install dependencies; or, alternatively, include a separate script that does this?

Love your app and really hope it will be integrated into Gnome!

[JackTheDipper]

Hi, Exec!

Well, i guess it's just time to release 0.2.4 at last which doesn't have this issue. I hoped that more translations would be up-to-date for a release, but maybe pushing out the new features and the fix for the FTBFS with g++-4.3 is more important here. 

@configure: It's the usual way to check for requirements in the configure script and just print out which aren't met. A download+compile script for dependencies doesn't sound very useful to me, as all libraries are usually packaged for and by the distribution. Also there are too many package managers like apt, yum, yast, etc out there to support them all. Instead I'm providing Debian packages directly (and Ubuntu packages indirectly as they're in sync), other distributors do also a good job in providing binary packages. If you're willing to compile GNOMECC by source, you'd have to be able to understand the configure output and install the dependencies manually or use a development environment like jhbuild that compiles your GNOME source packages from source and respects all needed dependencies. Maybe PackageKit provides an easier alternative in the future? ;-)

[JackTheDipper]

0.2.4 released! ;-)

[Exec]

That's nice. Maybe this will get more people to sign up and help with the translations

True about configure, well at least you only have to install the dependencies once so it should be okay.

Btw, your rss for the forums appear to be broken. Firefox complains that "the source file could not be read."

[JackTheDipper]

Well.. that release hasn't got much attention (yet?)

Thanks, Exec! After adding further tweaks to this smf forum (to run properly on the sourceforge server), the rss feed seems to work now, also with Firefox.

Best regards,
Jack ;-)