Re: SDL error on compilation of Stellarium

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:59:29 GMT
Shriramana Sharma <jamadagni@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:

> I downloaded the source code for the most excellent astronomy program
> Stellarium from http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/download.html, and
> followed the install instructions and executed ./configure. I got the
> following error. I'm running KDE on SuSE 9.3 on Intel P4 3 GHz.
>

> checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.0... no
> *** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found
> *** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to sdl-config.
> configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.0 not found!
>

Whenever you are compiling programs, it's important to have the
'...-devel' versions of packages installed. If you see an error (like
above), search for the '-devel' packages that may be associated with
it. Sometimes, you can use the 'pin' command:

pin sdl-config

If you see nothing with that, just go into the Install & Remove
Software and search for 'sdl' and install the '-devel' packages that
look appropriate . . .


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