From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: It appears that many libraries are not installed with pkg-config files (/usr/lib/pkg-config/*.pc) under RedHat 9. I first noticed this with libgnome, libgnomeui and their bretheren. The lack of pkg-config files prevents the compilation and/or execution of programs such as FireStarter. Is this a bug, oversight, or what? Is there a fix for it? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libgnome How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download the firestarter source tarball (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firestarter/firestarter-0.9.1.2.tar.gz?download) 2. Untar it in a work directory. 3. "./configure" and watch it complain. Actual Results: The configure script will abort with "libgnome-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path". Looking at /usr/lib/pkg-config, there is no libgnome*.pc file. Expected Results: I'd expect .configure to finish, allowing one to make the program. Additional info:
You need to install the -devel packages, e.g. libgnome-devel, to compile software.