OK, I give up, why does gtk fail to build?

Nelis Lamprecht nelis at brabys.co.za
Thu Oct 23 06:31:55 PDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 15:05, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
> 
> At the suggestion of the script:
> 
> checking for remove... yes
> checking for shmat... yes
> checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
> checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no
> configure: error: *** libX11 not found. Check 'config.log' for more details.
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
>       Please report the problem to gnome at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach
>       the "/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20/work/gtk+-2.2.4/config.log" including
>       the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a
>       good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your
>       system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`).
> 

Hi

If you are trying to upgrade Gnome and not just Gtk I suggest you follow
the instructions located at:

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html

and also take a look at:

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/knownissues.html

Regards,
Nelis



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