trying to compile cups-filters: fatal error: goo/gmem.h: No such file or directory

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Mar 7 12:55:33 PST 2013


Manfred Wilner wrote:

> Leon,
> Have you ever got this to work?
> I am faced with the same problem and am desperately trying to make it
> work. \Manfred
> 
>> I am trying to compile the cups-filters and make fails with this error:
>> filter/pdftoopvp/oprs/OPRS.cxx:27:22: fatal error: goo/gmem.h: No such
>> file or directory
>>
>> Yet, when I run 'locate' :
>> so the file exists on my system
>>
>> I configure and make with the defaults. When I configure, the program
>> complains about not finding poppler and suggests entering in
>> POPPLER_CFLAGS and POPPLER_LIBS. So I 'export
>> "POPPLER_CFLAGS=/usr/include/poppler" and export the LIBS to the
>> directory in which the library exists. configure then proceeds without
>> error, but the make exits with the 'NO such file' error.
>>
>> Hope you can help. At the moment I am completely without the ability to
>> print anything and run out of places to try to get help.

The missing stuff is part of the poppler tree. You probably need a developer 
package for that.

Helge





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