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TripleE

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From: Houston, TX

Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 64

[RESOLVED] gnomesword...configure: error: needs a gtk 2 gecko build

I am trying to update gnomesword in the aur to 2.3.4, but every time I try to compile it, I get an error.  I am just doing a "$ ./configure" and here are the last 10 lines:

checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for GTKHTML... no
checking for GTKHTML... no
checking for GTKHTML... yes
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking which gecko to use... libxul
checking for compiler -fshort-wchar option... yes
checking whether to enable C++ RTTI... no
checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This program needs a gtk 2 gecko build

I have a bad feeling that I am missing a dependency.  Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance for the help.

Last edited by TripleE (2008-07-01 20:51:16)

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TripleE

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From: Houston, TX

Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 64

Re: [RESOLVED] gnomesword...configure: error: needs a gtk 2 gecko build

Emailed the gnomesword-users mailing list, and they suggested to use "$ ./configure --enable-gtkhtml".  It worked for me, and I uploaded the PKGBUILD to AUR.  Please let me know if you have any problems.

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tom4jean

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From: Buffalo, NY USA

Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 3

Re: [RESOLVED] gnomesword...configure: error: needs a gtk 2 gecko build

Greetings,

I tried "$ ./configure --enable-gtkhtml"  and all seemed to go well ending in the following message;

Summary of GnomeSword configuration:
mozilla:                  disabled
install directory:      /usr/local/bin
gtk-unix-print:          enabled

So I then issued "make" and got the following error at the end;

Making all in editor
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/tom4jean/Desktop/gnomesword-2.4.1/src/editor'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/Editor.idl', needed by `Editor-common.c'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/tom4jean/Desktop/gnomesword-2.4.1/src/editor'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tom4jean/Desktop/gnomesword-2.4.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tom4jean/Desktop/gnomesword-2.4.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

So, I tried "$ ./configure --enable-gtkhtml" again and ran "make check"
and I got the following error;

Making check in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tom4jean/Desktop/gnomesword-2.4.1/po'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../ui/editor.xml', needed by `gnomesword.pot'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tom4jean/Desktop/gnomesword-2.4.1/po'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
[root@myhost gnomesword-2.4.1]#

So finally I decied to try "make install" and got;

Making install in editor
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tom4jean/Desktop/gnomesword-2.4.1/src/editor'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/Editor.idl', needed by `Editor-common.c'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tom4jean/Desktop/gnomesword-2.4.1/src/editor'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tom4jean/Desktop/gnomesword-2.4.1/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

The same error message I got after "make".

Any Ideas on how to fix it?

I am new to linux in the past month and just got Archlinux up and running a few days ago so this is all new to me. I am really enjoying linux, and especially Archlinux! after trying Ubuntu, but please keep that in mind as you reply.
I'm reading, reading, and reading again to figure out how to do all this.
But I would really like to get GnomeSword running if I can.
Thanks and God Bless,
Tom

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edyeeh

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Registered: 2009-05-20

Posts: 6

Re: [RESOLVED] gnomesword...configure: error: needs a gtk 2 gecko build

I was searching for the same problem when I found this thread.

If you still need a solution (since its already an old post), I found my solution by installing the following packages.

libgtkhtml3.14-dev
libgtkhtml-editor-dev