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

["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.