Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] Build problems with ethereal-0.8.11

[Roelof Stroetinga <stroet@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

When I try to ./configure ethereal-0.8.11 I get the following error message

checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** Could not run GTK test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter case, you
*** may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/X11R6/bin/gtk-config
configure: error: GTK+ distribution not found

So I type 
#gtk-config --version
1.2.6 

What am I doing wrong?

config.log shows the following:

configure:2130: checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0
configure:2231: gcc -o conftest -Wall -g -O2 -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/wir
etap -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/g
lib/include  -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/wiretap -I/usr/local/include  -L/us
r/local/lib conftest.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -L/usr/lib
-rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm  1>&5
/usr/i386-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext                                 <---?
configure: failed program was:
#line 2153 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int 
main ()
{
  int major, minor, micro;
  char *tmp_version;

  system ("touch conf.gtktest");

  /* HP/UX 9 (%@#!) writes to sscanf strings */
  tmp_version = g_strdup("1.2.0");
  if (sscanf(tmp_version, "%d.%d.%d", &major, &minor, &micro) != 3) {
     printf("%s, bad version string\n", "1.2.0");
     exit(1);
   }

  if ((gtk_major_version != 1) ||
      (gtk_minor_version != 2) ||
      (gtk_micro_version != 6))
    {
      printf("\n*** 'gtk-config --version' returned %d.%d.%d, but GTK+ (%d.%d.%d)\n", 
             1, 2, 6,
             gtk_major_version, gtk_minor_version, gtk_micro_version);
      printf ("*** was found! If gtk-config was correct, then it is best\n");
      printf ("*** to remove the old version of GTK+. You may also be able to fix the error\n");
      printf("*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing\n");
      printf("*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is\n");
      printf("*** required on your system.\n");
      printf("*** If gtk-config was wrong, set the environment variable GTK_CONFIG\n");
      printf("*** to point to the correct copy of gtk-config, and remove the file config.cache\n");
      printf("*** before re-running configure\n");
    } 
#if defined (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION) && defined (GTK_MINOR_VERSION) && defined (GTK_MICRO_VERSION)
  else if ((gtk_major_version != GTK_MAJOR_VERSION) ||
	   (gtk_minor_version != GTK_MINOR_VERSION) ||
           (gtk_micro_version != GTK_MICRO_VERSION))
    {
      printf("*** GTK+ header files (version %d.%d.%d) do not match\n",
	     GTK_MAJOR_VERSION, GTK_MINOR_VERSION, GTK_MICRO_VERSION);
      printf("*** library (version %d.%d.%d)\n",
	     gtk_major_version, gtk_minor_version, gtk_micro_version);
    }
#endif /* defined (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION) ... */
  else
    {
      if ((gtk_major_version > major) ||
        ((gtk_major_version == major) && (gtk_minor_version > minor)) ||
        ((gtk_major_version == major) && (gtk_minor_version == minor) && (gtk_micro_version >= micro)))
      {
        return 0;
       }
     else
      {
        printf("\n*** An old version of GTK+ (%d.%d.%d) was found.\n",
               gtk_major_version, gtk_minor_version, gtk_micro_version);
        printf("*** You need a version of GTK+ newer than %d.%d.%d. The latest version of\n",
	       major, minor, micro);
        printf("*** GTK+ is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org.\n";);
        printf("***\n");
        printf("*** If you have already installed a sufficiently new version, this error\n");
        printf("*** probably means that the wrong copy of the gtk-config shell script is\n");
        printf("*** being found. The easiest way to fix this is to remove the old version\n");
        printf("*** of GTK+, but you can also set the GTK_CONFIG environment to point to the\n");
        printf("*** correct copy of gtk-config. (In this case, you will have to\n");
        printf("*** modify your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf\n");
        printf("*** so that the correct libraries are found at run-time))\n");
      }
    }
  return 1;
}

configure:2275: gcc -o conftest -Wall -g -O2 -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/wiretap -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include  -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/wiretap -I/usr/local/include  -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -L/usr/lib -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm 1>&5
/usr/i386-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
configure: failed program was:
#line 2265 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
 return ((gtk_major_version) || (gtk_minor_version) || (gtk_micro_version)); 
; return 0; }

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Any info would be greatly appreciated.

System info:

Caldera OpenLinux
Version 2.4 eDesktop  
Linux 2.2.14 
  
Cheers,

Roelof