setting ./configure environmentals question

[Tom Poe]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Tom Poe wrote:
>   
>> I want to install tarball of gimp-gap, since there's no rpm
>> available to work with gimp2.2.  Naturally, it won't find gimp on my
>> FC5, but I don't know what to do with message.  Any help
>> appreciated:
>> [message]
>> checking for GIMP... configure: error: Package requirements
>> (gimp-2.0>= 2.2.0 gimpui-2.0>= 2.2.0 gimpthumb-2.0) were not met.
>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>
>> Alternatively you may set the GIMP_CFLAGS and GIMP_LIBS environment
>> variables to avoid the need to call pkg-config.  See the pkg-config
>> man page for more details.  [tom at localhost gimp-gap-2.2.0]$ echo
>> $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
>>     
>
> If you install gimp-devel, then pkg-config should be happy.  The
> gimp-devel package includes (among other needed things) the .pc files
> needed for pkg-config to do it's thing.
>
> Sometimes you may need to alter PKG_CONFIG_PATH if you've installed
> something in /usr/local for example.  Most of the time if you're
> seeing this error it means you've missing the proper -devel package.
>
>   
Thanks for the reminder.  I noticed that the yum check-updates have not 
been adding updates for quite a few days, now.  Looks like I better bite 
the bullet and try an upgrade to FC6.  When I ran yum for the 
development package, it errored with needing gimp-libs, which starts 
with FC6 at the Freshmeat repo.  Could be one of those nights, I guess.  :)
Tom