Re: bug with gdkpixbuf

[Paul D. Smith]

%% root <root> writes:

  r> Some help, please !

  r> address@hidden

First, please don't run the configure as root.  You should never do
_anything_ as root except what's absolutely necessary... in the case of
building tools you can do the entire build as yourself, and just run the
final "make install" as root, if you need to.

Second, if you do run the configure as root, please send the email as
yourself rather than root, so that your message is configured correctly
for people to respond to it.

Third, when reporting problems or asking for help you should _ALWAYS_
include the version of the software you're using, the operating system
type and version you're using the software on, and any other similar
version info you think is relevant.

Fourth, the problem you're having is with gdk-pixbuf, not GNU make, so
sending requests to this list, the bugs list for GNU make, will not get
you very far; we likely don't even know what gdk-pixbuf is (I don't,
anyway).

Fifth, it looks like the compile fails because you don't have the proper
header files installed: this very likely means you don't have the right
packages installed on your system.  In many Linux distributions (Debian
and Red Hat, and their derivatives, certainly) libraries like GDK,
etc. are split into two parts: the runtime part, which contains the
libraries and config files you need to run programs that are already
built, and the development part, which contains the header files,
static libraries, etc. needed to _build_ programs which use that
library.  You likely need to install the libgdk-dev package (or whatever
it's called, I have no idea).

Sixth, this _does_ represent a bug in the gdk-pixbuf package, because
the configure script should check for all these things and either fail
with some informative message if they don't exist, or configure itself
in such a way that the compilation succeeds anyway (by disabling that
feature or working around it or whatever).  It should _never_ be the
case that the configure of a package succeeds but the build fails (due
to an invalid system environment).

But, you have to report this to the gdk-pixbuf people, not to us.

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