Error in Installing bluefish 2.2.3 on Slackware 14.0 (kernel 3.2.29)

[aherrys]

Hi all,

I have issue when I am trying to install bluefish 2.2.3 on the latest Slackware 14.0 (with custom kernel 3.2.29). Basically I downloaded the Bluefish 2.2.3 tar file and after untar it I did ./configure and make, however the make failed with the following error:

make[5]: Entering directory `/root/bluefish-2.2.3/src/plugin_about'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/bluefish\" -I. -I../../src     -g -O2 -Wall -pipe -I/usr/include/python2.7   -MT about.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/about.Tpo -c -o about.lo about.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/bluefish\" -I. -I../../src -g -O2 -Wall -pipe -I/usr/include/python2.7 -MT about.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/about.Tpo -c about.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/about.o
about.c:22:21: fatal error: gmodule.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

I have installed both glib-1.2.10 and glib2-2.32-4 so the gmodule.h exist in both /usr/include/glib-1.2 and /usr/include/glib-2.0 but somehow the compile command cannot find them. If I manually copy one of the gmodule.h to /usr/include, it seemed that the compiler could find it but it again stuck at some other missing header ( I think it was glib.h) So I don't think keep copying header files into /usr/include is the right solution here. So what am I missing here ? Is it the problem on my slackware system configuration ? or is it something wrong with the directive on the make file ? This is the first time I try to compile anything on this brand new slackware 14.0.

Thanks

[HROAdmin26]

When compiling something that "depends" on other software to compile, you generally need the development packages for that software - IE, the glib-dev and glib2-dev packages.

[aherrys]

@HROAdmin26, I do not think there is any 'development' package for slackware distro. I search the slackware com there is no 'dev' package such as glib2-dev etc.

Thanks

[aherrys]

Hi

Here is the update of the problem. I tried to compile the application under a different slackware version (13.37) and found it went through OK. When I compare the gcc command that causes the error, here is the difference:

didn't work

make[5]: Entering directory `/root/bluefish-2.0.3/src/plugin_about'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/bluefish\" -I. -I../../src     -g -O2 -Wall -pipe   -MT about.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/about.Tpo -c -o about.lo about.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/bluefish\" -I. -I../../src -g -O2 -Wall -pipe -MT about.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/about.Tpo -c about.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/about.o
about.c:21:21: fatal error: gmodule.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

worked

make[5]: Entering directory `/root/bluefish-2.0.3/src/plugin_about'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=
\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/bluefish\" -I. -I../
../src     -g -O2 -Wall -pipe -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0
/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2
.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
-I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng14 -I/usr/
include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/enchant    -MT about
.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/about.Tpo -c -o about.lo about.c

You can notice that on the command gcc that is issued, the one that works has lots of include directive to all the dependent package subdirectories under the /usr/include. While on the one that stuck it has no additional -I directive and it was the reason why it cannot find the gmodule.h

So I think there is something amiss in either when I was doing ./configure or when running the make process itself.
Can someone please help me in pointing out in direction should I looking to find the solution of this problem ? I am really lost when it got to all this C code compilation business..

Thanks

[elija]

Back when I used Slackware, I used Slackbuilds for all my compilation. What you get at the end of it is a package that you can install. If you grab the one for version 14 it should be correctly configured. I found these a lot simpler than the standard configure, make and make install.