dbus-glib installation problem

[Havoc Pennington]

Luigi Paioro wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've installed D-Bus 0.93 (in a custom dir - SUSe 10.0) and now I'm 
> trying to install dbus-glib-0.71 and dbus-python-0.71 bindings. I've set 
> up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH adding <dbdus install>/lib and PKG_CONFIG_PATH 
> adding <dbdus install>/lib/pkgconfig. I've configured dbus-glib with a 
> command like:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=<dbdus install> --includedir=<dbdus install>/include
> 
> but compiling I get some errors like:
> 
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I/opt/gnome/include/glib-2.0 
> -I/opt/gnome/lib/glib-2.0/include -DDBUS_COMPILATION=1 
> -DDBUS_LOCALEDIR=\"/antigone/luigi/work/software/dbus/dbus-0.93/installation/share/locale\" 
> -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1 -g -O2 -Wall -Wchar-subscripts 
> -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs 
> -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wfloat-equal -Wsign-compare -MT 
> dbus-glib.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/dbus-glib.Tpo -c dbus-glib.c  -fPIC -DPIC 
> -o .libs/dbus-glib.o
> In file included from dbus-glib.c:25:
> dbus-glib.h:28:30: error: dbus/dbus-shared.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from dbus-glib.c:25:
> dbus-glib.h:74: error: syntax error before 'type'
> In file included from dbus-glib.c:26:
> dbus-glib-lowlevel.h:28:23: error: dbus/dbus.h: No such file or directory
> 
> and so on.
> 

The Includes: from the dbus .pc file in lib/pkgconfig should be on the 
above compile line, but they aren't. Perhaps the dbus-glib build is 
broken and does not put them there, or maybe something else, I don't 
have a guess though if it's not just a bug in the dbus-glib build.

Havoc