failed compile

> Paolo and Thomas:  the failed compile was apparently an ugly artifact caused by not cleaning the source dir between compiles.  I can now compile.
>
> However, as the excerpts below show, several components cannot be found and hence, the compile is severely crippled. gst-Blox, gst-Browser, visualGST, etc,  I have actually installed all of the supposedly missing components.  Perhaps you could give me more explicit names, e.g. for Cairo, I installed libcairo2 "The Cairo 2D vector graphics library", but that is either the wrong module, or for some reason it cannot be found.
>
> Any ideas why the modules below can not be found?  It's been years since I compiled regularly and I have forgotten much.  Could it be related to the fact that I am on a 64 bit machine?
> :
> checking for lt_dlopen in -lltdl... no
> configure: WARNING: using included copy of libltdl
> configure: WARNING: this is deprecated and will go away
> configure: WARNING: it is suggested to install libltdl
> checking for LIBFFI... no
> checking for ffi_prep_cif in -llibffi... no
> configure: WARNING: using included copy of libffi
> configure: WARNING: this is deprecated and will go away
> configure: WARNING: it is suggested to install libffi
> checking for sigsegv_install_handler in -lsigsegv... no
> configure: WARNING: using included copy of libsigsegv
> configure: WARNING: this is deprecated and will go away
> configure: WARNING: it is suggested to install libsigsegv
> :
> checking how to link with GMP... not found
> checking how to link with readline... not found
> :
> checking for Tcl 8.x... no
> checking for Tk 8.x... no
> :
> checking for sqlite3.h... no
> :
> checking for CAIRO... no
> :
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
>
> checking whether to install GTK... no
> checking whether to install BloxGTK... no
> checking whether to install Blox... no
>
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> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:24:54 +0100
> Mathieu Suen <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Did you install the dev package?
>
> That's a very good idea in general. Ubuntu (like others)
> provides library x in package x for _compiled_ programs
> to use. If you plan on _compiling_ something using
> library x, you need package x-dev, which contains the
> header files needed for a typical configure run to succeed.