Re: Check for GTK+ and PyGTK in configure

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:00:22PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 11:51:30AM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 10:41:26AM +0100, Luis A. Bastiao Silva wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Thanks. That is unexpected. Can you send me config.log file?
>
> Oh, and what happens if you run
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gtktest
>
> The error you saw might have happened because the configure test is
> trying to compile and link a GTK+ program, when you might have only the
> runtime files installed. We don't need the development files for PyGTK,
> just the runtime, so if that test works I'll adjust the configure test
> not to try to compile a GTK+ program.

I did some research, and it turns out both of the new configure tests
require development versions of the libraries they tested. They both
looked for pkg-config's .pc files, which at least on Debian are not in
the main packages but in the development packages (compare
http://packages.debian.org/etch/all/python-gtk2/filelist and
http://packages.debian.org/etch/all/python-gtk2-dev/filelist).
Additionally the GTK+ test tried to compile a program, as was noted. So
I have reverted the tests. The PyGTK one could be replaced with a little
test that just tried importing the gtk module and reading the version
number, but it's not very important.

David Fifield

_______________________________________________
Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list
http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
Archived at http://SecLists.Org