[CentOS] compiling FahMON for Centos?

Sun Apr 4 00:50:27 UTC 2010
Tony Schreiner <schreian at bc.edu>

fred smith wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 03:36:59PM -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote:
>   
>> fred smith wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> Thanks to those who pointed me to wxwidgets packages for centos!
>>>
>>> I'm trying to build/install FAHMON (a monitoring tool for Folding At Home
>>> clients) on centos 5.4, which is why I needed the wxwidgets stuff.
>>>
>>> fahmon goes through .configure just fine, but it won't compile and it's
>>> not clear to me what's wrong. it spews bazillions of errors, starting with:
>>>
>>> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/fredex/myfiles/programs/fahmon/FahMon-2.3.99.1/wxcurl/src'
>>> /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../wxcurl/include   -Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing -g -O2   -MT base.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/base.Tpo -c -o base.lo base.cpp
>>>  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../wxcurl/include -Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -MT base.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/base.Tpo -c base.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/base.o
>>> base.cpp:16:23: error: wx/wxprec.h: No such file or directory
>>> base.cpp:19:23: error: wx/wx.h: No such file or directory
>>> In file included from base.cpp:25:
>>> ../../wxcurl/include/wx/curl/base.h:32:22: error: wx/event.h: No such file or directory
>>> ../../wxcurl/include/wx/curl/base.h:33:23: error: wx/string.h: No such file or directory
>>> ../../wxcurl/include/wx/curl/base.h:34:25: error: wx/datetime.h: No such file or directory
>>> ../../wxcurl/include/wx/curl/base.h:35:23: error: wx/stream.h: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> it looks like it's not including the header tree in /usr/lib/wx-2.8/wx
>>> which is where those files are. I've tried messing with options to
>>> configure but that doesn't seem to help. I probably fail to fully
>>> understand how configure works...
>>>
>>> so to short-circuit beating my head on this wall, can any of you suggest
>>> where I might find a binary package for this utility? The fahmon site doesn't
>>> appear to have one, as far as I can see.
>>>
>>> Thanks, once again!
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> yum search "*/wx/stream.h"
>>
>> tells you that you need wxGTK-devel
>>     
>
> I have it installed!
>
> 	# rpm -qa | grep -y wxgtk
> 	wxGTK-gl-2.8.9-2.el5
> 	wxGTK-devel-2.8.9-2.el5
> 	wxGTK-2.8.9-2.el5
>
>   
Did the configure output tell you it found wxwidgets (whatever name it 
uses)?