[root@FOXTROT linux-2.6.8.1-ck5]# make clean && make gconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/basic/split-include
HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc
*
* Unable to find the GTK+ installation. Please make sure that
* the GTK+ 2.0 development package is correctly installed...
* You need gtk+-2.0, glib-2.0 and libglade-2.0.
*
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/.tmp_gtkcheck] Error 1
make: *** [gconfig] Error 2
[root@FOXTROT linux-2.6.8.1-ck5]# make clean && make gconfig

Are You Kidding!!?? Im using Gnome to install you!

I have run into many problems when trying to install from source. This is one such instance. Another instance of this problem occurs when trying to install a source tar package such as gnome-ppp. ./configure ends with an error telling me i dont have many libraries which i very well know i have installed. Some kind of error concerning autoconfigure or some kind of file with a .pc extension. Does anyone have a clue what im talking about ?

Xavier

Make sure you have the development versions installed, as they contain header files required when you compile programs. For example, on my system I have the libgtk+1.2-1.2.10-38mdk rpm installed, but I also have the libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-38mdk package as I compile programs that use libraries supplied by the first package.

Through my personal experience, Mandrake is impossible to compile from source, even if you have all the dependencies. I have had zero successful attempts. There's always something that goes wrong so don't even bother. You have to use URPMI or get some RPM's to do it with Mandrake.

You know, I just tried to compile a kernel like that and I got exactly the same error !!!

If you were trying to compile the 2.6.8.1-ck5 kernel try doing this instead:

make clean bzImage modules modules_install install

then run lilo to update your mbr.

Installing the development packages "nafan" quoted works for the "gconfig" kernel tool. The program was able to compile cleanly and i was able to configure a new kernel using it.

The problem now is third party software. I will use the two most recent packages i tried to install as examples.

1) gnome-ppp -- After installing "Anjuta", for the reason of installing all possible gnome development packages, i was finally able to "./configure" this package correctly only to run into "make" errors afterwards.

\output\ ...
ndefined reference to `gtk_combo_box_set_active'
gnome-ppp.o(.text+0x256c): In function `write_conf':
/usr/local/src/gnome-ppp-0.3.15/src/gnome-ppp.c:640: undefined reference to `GTK_COMBO_BOX'
gnome-ppp.o(.text+0x2575):/usr/local/src/gnome-ppp-0.3.15/src/gnome-ppp.c:640: undefined reference to `gtk_combo_box_get_active'
gnome-ppp.o(.text+0x2627):/usr/local/src/gnome-ppp-0.3.15/src/gnome-ppp.c:644: undefined reference to `GTK_COMBO_BOX'
gnome-ppp.o(.text+0x2630):/usr/local/src/gnome-ppp-0.3.15/src/gnome-ppp.c:644: undefined reference to `gtk_combo_box_get_active'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [gnome-ppp] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnome-ppp-0.3.15/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnome-ppp-0.3.15'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@FOXTROT gnome-ppp-0.3.15]#
\output\

Basically "make" is telling me there is an undefined reference to "GTK_COMBO_BOX". Now i have a good mind to go right into the third party software delete this variable and see what happens. The point is once i start modifying the code of the third party software i install things become dangerous for my system. This has to be a Mandrake error. Anyone know how to get past this.

2) gTweakUI

/output/
MF ".deps/menus.Tpo" -c -o menus.o menus.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/menus.Tpo" ".deps/menus.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/menus.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
menus.c: In function `main':
menus.c:227: error: `PACKAGE_NAME' undeclared (first use in this function)
menus.c:227: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
menus.c:227: error: for each function it appears in.)
menus.c:227: error: `PACKAGE_VERSION' undeclared (first use in this function)
menus.c:230: error: `GETTEXT_PACKAGE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [menus.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gTweakUI-0.4.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gTweakUI-0.4.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@FOXTROT gTweakUI-0.4.0]#
/output/

Yet another example of a make error. This time it appears when i try to compile gTweakUI.
Im beginning to wonder whether i should even develop software on this distro.