configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Jeremy Baxter]

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I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
(4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
and --with-pgtk I get the following error:

    checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
    configure: error: 

I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
running the Void Linux distribution with glibc, and I generated the
configure script with `autoreconf -fi'. The full output log is attached,
would anyone be able to help here?

    ~Jeremy

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configure: error: 

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:52:33 +1300
> From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> 
> I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> 
>     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
>     configure: error: 
> 
> I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> running the Void Linux distribution with glibc, and I generated the
> configure script with `autoreconf -fi'. The full output log is attached,
> would anyone be able to help here?

Can you tell what is the purpose of using --with-x-toolkit=no in this
case?

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Jeremy Baxter]

On Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 11:13 PM NZDT, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:52:33 +1300
> > From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> > 
> > I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> > (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> > and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> > 
> >     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
> >     configure: error: 
> > 
> > I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> > running the Void Linux distribution with glibc, and I generated the
> > configure script with `autoreconf -fi'. The full output log is attached,
> > would anyone be able to help here?
>
> Can you tell what is the purpose of using --with-x-toolkit=no in this
> case?

Passing no arguments causes an error telling me to supply --with-x-toolkit,
since I didn't have X11 libraries installed. Installing those libraries
makes the configure run normally so I can omit --with-x-toolkit.

I want to build with pgtk but passing --with-pgtk causes the same gtk/glib
error as before.

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:16:04 +1300
> Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> 
> On Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 11:13 PM NZDT, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:52:33 +1300
> > > From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> > > (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> > > and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> > > 
> > >     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
> > >     configure: error: 
> > > 
> > > I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> > > running the Void Linux distribution with glibc, and I generated the
> > > configure script with `autoreconf -fi'. The full output log is attached,
> > > would anyone be able to help here?
> >
> > Can you tell what is the purpose of using --with-x-toolkit=no in this
> > case?
> 
> Passing no arguments causes an error telling me to supply --with-x-toolkit,
> since I didn't have X11 libraries installed. Installing those libraries
> makes the configure run normally so I can omit --with-x-toolkit.
> 
> I want to build with pgtk but passing --with-pgtk causes the same gtk/glib
> error as before.

Adding Po Lu in the hope that he understands what's going on here.
You are basically saying that Emacs cannot be build for PGTK, is that
so?

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Jeremy Baxter]

On Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 7:47 AM NZDT, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:16:04 +1300
> > Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> > From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> > 
> > On Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 11:13 PM NZDT, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:52:33 +1300
> > > > From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> > > > (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> > > > and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> > > > 
> > > >     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
> > > >     configure: error: 
> > > > 
> > > > I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> > > > running the Void Linux distribution with glibc, and I generated the
> > > > configure script with `autoreconf -fi'. The full output log is attached,
> > > > would anyone be able to help here?
> > >
> > > Can you tell what is the purpose of using --with-x-toolkit=no in this
> > > case?
> > 
> > Passing no arguments causes an error telling me to supply --with-x-toolkit,
> > since I didn't have X11 libraries installed. Installing those libraries
> > makes the configure run normally so I can omit --with-x-toolkit.
> > 
> > I want to build with pgtk but passing --with-pgtk causes the same gtk/glib
> > error as before.
>
> Adding Po Lu in the hope that he understands what's going on here.
> You are basically saying that Emacs cannot be build for PGTK, is that
> so?

Yes, but I also cannot build if I supply --with-x-toolkit.

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 11:53, Jeremy Baxter <jtbx@disroot.org> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
>
>     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
>     configure: error:
>
> I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> running the Void Linux distribution

Do you have only runtime libraries installed, or development packages
also? I’m not familiar with Void Linux, but, for example, in
Debian-based distributions, files needed to *run* software using GTK+
go in the libgtk-3-0 package, while files needed to *build* such
software go in libgtk-3-dev.

Sorry for the noise if you are already aware of the distinction and do
have development packages installed.

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Jeremy Baxter]

On Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 9:15 AM NZDT, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 11:53, Jeremy Baxter <jtbx@disroot.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> > (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> > and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> >
> >     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
> >     configure: error:
> >
> > I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> > running the Void Linux distribution
>
> Do you have only runtime libraries installed, or development packages
> also? I’m not familiar with Void Linux, but, for example, in
> Debian-based distributions, files needed to *run* software using GTK+
> go in the libgtk-3-0 package, while files needed to *build* such
> software go in libgtk-3-dev.
>
> Sorry for the noise if you are already aware of the distinction and do
> have development packages installed.

Yes, I do have the development packages installed.

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:21:11 +1300
> Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> 
> On Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 9:15 AM NZDT, Yuri Khan wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 11:53, Jeremy Baxter <jtbx@disroot.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> > > (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> > > and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> > >
> > >     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
> > >     configure: error:
> > >
> > > I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> > > running the Void Linux distribution
> >
> > Do you have only runtime libraries installed, or development packages
> > also? I’m not familiar with Void Linux, but, for example, in
> > Debian-based distributions, files needed to *run* software using GTK+
> > go in the libgtk-3-0 package, while files needed to *build* such
> > software go in libgtk-3-dev.
> >
> > Sorry for the noise if you are already aware of the distinction and do
> > have development packages installed.
> 
> Yes, I do have the development packages installed.

Please show the portions of config.log that test for the above
components: gtk+-3.0 and glib-2.0.  They could explain why the
configure script fails in your case.

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Jeremy Baxter]

On Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 7:12 PM NZDT, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:21:11 +1300
> > Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> > From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> > 
> > On Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 9:15 AM NZDT, Yuri Khan wrote:
> > > On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 11:53, Jeremy Baxter <jtbx@disroot.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> > > > (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> > > > and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> > > >
> > > >     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
> > > >     configure: error:
> > > >
> > > > I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> > > > running the Void Linux distribution
> > >
> > > Do you have only runtime libraries installed, or development packages
> > > also? I’m not familiar with Void Linux, but, for example, in
> > > Debian-based distributions, files needed to *run* software using GTK+
> > > go in the libgtk-3-0 package, while files needed to *build* such
> > > software go in libgtk-3-dev.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the noise if you are already aware of the distinction and do
> > > have development packages installed.
> > 
> > Yes, I do have the development packages installed.
>
> Please show the portions of config.log that test for the above
> components: gtk+-3.0 and glib-2.0.  They could explain why the
> configure script fails in your case.

In the log there was nothing that would cause checking for gtk/glib to
fail.  I looked inside the configure script and saw it uses pkg-config
to test for gtk, and I did not have that installed.  After I installed
pkg-config it detected gtk and configure succeeded, which is strange
because it detects gtk without pkg-config in a non-pgtk build.

Thank you very much for your help!

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:44:47 +1300
> Cc: <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> 
> On Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 7:12 PM NZDT, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:21:11 +1300
> > > Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> > > From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> > > 
> > > On Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 9:15 AM NZDT, Yuri Khan wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 11:53, Jeremy Baxter <jtbx@disroot.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> > > > > (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> > > > > and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> > > > >
> > > > >     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
> > > > >     configure: error:
> > > > >
> > > > > I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> > > > > running the Void Linux distribution
> > > >
> > > > Do you have only runtime libraries installed, or development packages
> > > > also? I’m not familiar with Void Linux, but, for example, in
> > > > Debian-based distributions, files needed to *run* software using GTK+
> > > > go in the libgtk-3-0 package, while files needed to *build* such
> > > > software go in libgtk-3-dev.
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for the noise if you are already aware of the distinction and do
> > > > have development packages installed.
> > > 
> > > Yes, I do have the development packages installed.
> >
> > Please show the portions of config.log that test for the above
> > components: gtk+-3.0 and glib-2.0.  They could explain why the
> > configure script fails in your case.
> 
> In the log there was nothing that would cause checking for gtk/glib to
> fail.  I looked inside the configure script and saw it uses pkg-config
> to test for gtk, and I did not have that installed.  After I installed
> pkg-config it detected gtk and configure succeeded, which is strange
> because it detects gtk without pkg-config in a non-pgtk build.

OK, thanks.  So I guess we can consider this issue resolved.

(In general, I think pkg-config should be installed on any system
where users build software by running Autoconf tools.)

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Björn Bidar]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> OK, thanks.  So I guess we can consider this issue resolved.
>
> (In general, I think pkg-config should be installed on any system
> where users build software by running Autoconf tools.)

In most cases pkg-config is provided by pkgconf as pkg-config isn't
maintained anymore (last release was 2017).

Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
> Cc: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>,  yuri.v.khan@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:24:21 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > OK, thanks.  So I guess we can consider this issue resolved.
> >
> > (In general, I think pkg-config should be installed on any system
> > where users build software by running Autoconf tools.)
> 
> In most cases pkg-config is provided by pkgconf as pkg-config isn't
> maintained anymore (last release was 2017).

I meant pkg-config the program.  If pkgconf provides it, then having
that installed will do; otherwise, Someone™ should tell Autoconf
developers to start supporting pkgconf in their scripts and m4 macros.