Thanks for replying Greg.

>pkg-config is supplied from pkgsrc and looks there already.
>
>gnome-config is invoked by pkg-config as a fallback.  So it's not the
>real error.
>
>pkg-config needs to be to told what to report; just pkg-config and
>module doesn't do much useful.

Well, it returns a value of 0 to the shell if it's successful and 1 
if it's not; that can be checked with 'echo $status' in csh, for 
example.  I think that's what OOF2's setup.py uses to determine if 
the programs it relies on are present.

>I have pygtk-2.0 installed.
>
>fnord gdt 11 /usr/home/gdt > pkg-config  --atleast-version=2.6.0 
>pygtk-2.0 --libs
>fnord gdt 12 /usr/home/gdt > pkg-config pygtk-2.0 --libs
>-Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl 
>
>So it seems that --atleast-version is not working the way you expect.

I'm at a loss to explain why OOF2 can be installed on the machine I 
tried which had it's packages installed from source, but not on the 
machine where they were installed from precompiled .tgz files 
downloaded from 
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/3.1/i386/All/.  Why would 
pkg-config on the latter need to use gnome-config while it doesn't on 
the former?

I tried executing 'pkg-config --modversion pygtk-2.0', which does 
produce output to stdout, on both machines:

machine with packages installed from source
-------------------------------------------

% pkg-config --modversion pygtk-2.0
2.10.1
% pkg-config --exists 'pygtk-2.0 >= 2.6.0' --print-errors
% echo $status
0
%

machine with packages installed from .tgz files
-----------------------------------------------

% pkg-config --modversion pygtk-2.0
gnome-config: not found
Package pygobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pygobject-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'pygobject-2.0', required by 'PyGTK', not found
% pkg-config --exists 'pygtk-2.0 >= 2.6.0' --print-errors
gnome-config: not found
Package pygobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pygobject-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'pygobject-2.0', required by 'PyGTK', not found
%

I discovered the gnome-libs package contains gnome-config and 
installed it on the installed-from-binary machine, then tried again:

% pkg-config --modversion pygtk-2.0
Package pygobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pygobject-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'pygobject-2.0', required by 'PyGTK', not found
% pkg-config --exists 'pygtk-2.0 >= 2.6.0' --print-errors
Package pygobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pygobject-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'pygobject-2.0', required by 'PyGTK', not found
% echo $status
1
%

So it no longer complains about gnome-config not being found, but 
there's not a file named pygobject-2.0.pc on that machine.

I don't know what to do now.


Ray