Problems with gtk2-devel

[sueltraz]

I'm trying to compile Pidgin 2.1.1 from the source RPM provided by the Pidgin project. I have installed all of the build dependencies and rpmbuild runs the configure script. However, for some reason the configure script fails to recognize that I have install gtk2-devel (this happens even if I try to build Pidgin from just the tarball). When it checks for gtk2-devel it spits out the following error message:

You must have the GTK+ 2.0 development headers installed to compile Pidgin.
If you only want to build Finch then specify --disable-gtkui when running configure.

When I go to build it on another system with all the necessary build dependencies, the source RPM builds successfully and I get an installable package.

Both systems are running Fedora 7 and I'm at a loss where to start troubleshooting this problem with gtk2-devel. I've done a search through the forums for related issues, but I'm not really sure how to word my searches on this particular issue, so I apologize if this problem has already been mentioned in another thread.

[Jman]

configure should have a config.log to debug this. Take its tests and run them manually.

You could use mock to rebuild it in a root, and if that doesn't work the BuildRequires aren't right.

Curious, why rebuild?

[sueltraz]

I thought it might have been the package, but I did end up building it on another Fedora 7 machine. Now I'm just curious why config scripts are failing to find the gtk headers.

I will check out the config.log tomorrow...after I've had some sleep.

I compiled it, because 2.1.1 wasn't yet available from the repos and I was eager to check out the new changes to the UI. I notice now that 2.1.1 is in updates-testing.

[sueltraz]

Well, I went through the config.log and found the configure script was complaining about a missing package. pango-devel to be specific. But when config failed it didn't actually say pango-devel was missing but rather the gtk headers. I installed pango-devel and configure completed successfully.

Thanks for the suggestion.