Whats up with this?

[MrNewbie]

I've installed GTK+ and AudioFile from source, but whenever configure scripts try to detect them they never find them! I've tried putting /usr/local/bin in my PATH, (even though its already there because I can run gtk-config or audiofile-config fine from CLI) and I tried setting the environment variables it tells you to in the configure scripts when it fails to find them to the full path to the gtk-config or audiofile-config program as it tells you to but no go! What's going on? glib has the same kind of think with the glib-config program but the gtk configure script found that fine. I'm very confused, if its in my path and it excecutable without a full path then why isnt it detected? This is in Slackware right now, but it happens in LFS and when I tried compiling the programs from source instead of using apt to get them in debian.
I can't figure out whats wrong, and it doesnt say to do anything I havent tried in the readmes, has anyone else had this problem?
MrNewbie

[brwnx]

i dont have a solution for your problem...
what i do have is a litte piece of advice...
try to write a more descriptive header on your posts...more people will read if they from the header can see what the problem is about...

Originally posted by MrNewbie:
I've installed GTK+ and AudioFile from source, but whenever configure scripts try to detect them they never find them! I've tried putting /usr/local/bin in my PATH, (even though its already there because I can run gtk-config or audiofile-config fine from CLI) and I tried setting the environment variables it tells you to in the configure scripts when it fails to find them to the full path to the gtk-config or audiofile-config program as it tells you to but no go! What's going on? glib has the same kind of think with the glib-config program but the gtk configure script found that fine. I'm very confused, if its in my path and it excecutable without a full path then why isnt it detected? This is in Slackware right now, but it happens in LFS and when I tried compiling the programs from source instead of using apt to get them in debian.
I can't figure out whats wrong, and it doesnt say to do anything I havent tried in the readmes, has anyone else had this problem?
MrNewbie

[7]

I had a similar problem when running ./configure. It turned out that it was reading a cached version (the file config.cache or something). I deleted the cache file and ran configure again and it found the stuff that I installed after the first time I ran it. Good Luck.

[MrNewbie]

Oh, thanks, I'll go try deleting that. I've tried everything it says to do when this happens at the GTK+ site, hopefully this will work.
Thanks

[MrNewbie]

Thanks it worked. I'll have to remember that running the configure script doesnt always reset your options.
MrNewbie