Re: Check for GTK+ and PyGTK in configure

["Luis A. Bastiao Silva" <luis.kop () gmail com>]

Hi,

Well, I didn't know if I should post it.
But after made svn update, I tried configure nmap.
Just a simple command:
./configure --prefix=/usr

And just for the record:

checking for /usr/bin/python platform... (cached) linux2
checking for /usr/bin/python script directory... (cached)
${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for /usr/bin/python extension module directory... (cached)
${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.8.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for
the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly
installed.
configure: WARNING: Not building Zenmap because GTK+ 2.8.0 or later was not
found

> > > import gtk
> > > gtk.gtk_version
(2, 12, 9)
> > >

And same in a Mac box:

> > > gtk.gtk_version
(2, 13, 1)
> > >





On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:42 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I went through a round of email debugging with a Zenmap user who
> couldn't get Zenmap to work. It turned out that he was on Solaris using
> and old version of PyGTK. PyGTK 2.8.0 is required for the Cairo
> functions used by the topology view. When he upgraded PyGTK, it still
> didn't work. He was using an old version of GTK+ also, and apparently
> PyGTK configures itself not to include functions that are not in the
> underlying GTK+. He eventually got Zenmap to work after upgrading GTK+
> also.
>
> I committed a change that makes configure look for GTK+ and PyGTK in
> addition to Python when deciding whether to build Zenmap. This shouldn't
> affect most users, only those with old libraries or who are missing GTK+
> or PyGTK+. The warning shown by the configure script will give a clue as
> to what's missing.
>
> I tested it on a computer with both GTK+ and PyGTK and on a computer
> with neither.
>
> I hesitated a bit before committing this because it makes the configure
> script use the pkg-config program, which it didn't before. (It's not
> required in the sense that configure will run without pkg-config, but
> it's required for the GTK+ and PyGTK tests to pass.) But configure used
> to use pkg-config to search for GTK+ way back in the NmapFE days, all
> the way up to r6905, so I think it's all right.


About the revision in try:
r10484 | david | 2008-10-04 02:24:38 +0100 (Sat, 04 Oct 2008) | 4 lines

is it ok, right?



> David Fifield
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I don't know if what I report is really a problem, but let me know if you
need some additional results.

Best Regards,
-- 
Luis A. Bastiao Silva

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