How to find missing libraries when compiling apps

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:36:45 +1000, CB wrote:

> How do you go about discovering what rpm to install to add a required
> library when trying to compile an application?
> 
> Current example: I want to try out Tomboy
> ( http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy ). ./configure gives me the
> following error: 
> 
> 	No package 'gdk-2.0' found
> 
> I've tried doing a 'yum search' and have tried rather randomly
> installing a couple of rpm's with the string 'gdk' in them, but that
> seems a pretty dumb approach. Is there a better one, or do you just have
> to read and comprehend the code to know what to install?

The latter, unfortunately. Experience is the key here. 'gdk-2.0' refers
to a pkgconfig template file:

  $ rpm --redhatprovides /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gdk-2.0.pc
  gtk2-devel-2.4.0-1

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