setting ./configure environmentals question

[Tom Poe]

David Boles wrote:
> on 8/19/2007 3:24 PM, Tom Poe wrote:
>   
>> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>     
>>> Tom Poe wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I want to install tarball of gimp-gap, since there's no rpm
>>>> available to work with gimp2.2.  Naturally, it won't find gimp on my
>>>> FC5, but I don't know what to do with message.  Any help
>>>> appreciated:
>>>> [message]
>>>> checking for GIMP... configure: error: Package requirements
>>>> (gimp-2.0>= 2.2.0 gimpui-2.0>= 2.2.0 gimpthumb-2.0) were not met.
>>>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>>>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively you may set the GIMP_CFLAGS and GIMP_LIBS environment
>>>> variables to avoid the need to call pkg-config.  See the pkg-config
>>>> man page for more details.  [tom at localhost gimp-gap-2.2.0]$ echo
>>>> $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> If you install gimp-devel, then pkg-config should be happy.  The
>>> gimp-devel package includes (among other needed things) the .pc files
>>> needed for pkg-config to do it's thing.
>>>
>>> Sometimes you may need to alter PKG_CONFIG_PATH if you've installed
>>> something in /usr/local for example.  Most of the time if you're
>>> seeing this error it means you've missing the proper -devel package.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thanks for the reminder.  I noticed that the yum check-updates have not 
>> been adding updates for quite a few days, now.  Looks like I better bite 
>> the bullet and try an upgrade to FC6.  When I ran yum for the 
>> development package, it errored with needing gimp-libs, which starts 
>> with FC6 at the Freshmeat repo.  Could be one of those nights, I guess.  :)
>> Tom
>>     
>
>
> FC6 will be EOL around December 2007.
>
>
>   
Good point!  Boy, it sure would be nice for the packages for Fedora to 
be a little more backward-compatible.  Is FC8 supposed to be released then?
Tom