GDM Compiling Error

[jimhap]

Hello,

I'm kinda new to GDM.

When I tried to compile it, it gives me an error:

sh-3.00# ./configure --with-x
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.35.0 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.35.0 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
sh-3.00# ./configure --with-x
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.35.0 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GDU_MODULE_VERSION_CHECK... configure: error: Package requirements (gnome-doc-utils >= 0.3.2) were not met:

Package gnome-doc-utils was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gnome-doc-utils.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gnome-doc-utils' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GDU_MODULE_VERSION_CHECK_CFLAGS
and GDU_MODULE_VERSION_CHECK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

sh-3.00#

So then I downloaded gnome-doc-utils 0.10.1, and "installed" it. (There's a reason why I put that in quotes, you'll see later.)

And then I ran the configure script for GDM 2.16 again.
And STILL this keeps telling me the same message above.

I have no idea what to do now. Can you please help?

[bryansmith]

May I ask why you are trying to install GDM from source? You could easily get this through a package manager as GDM is a common DM.

What distro are you using?

[jimhap]

I'm using puppyOS, which is a recompiled mix of Slackware/Devbian. NO installers are included(no apt-get, whatever it is....)