Unable to build any GTK app, because of missing wayland-client.pc

[Rafał Cieślak]

I am unable to compile any basic GTK application, because it's pkg-config data got broken with some recent updates (I am using an up-to-date 13.04).
This is very easy to reproduce:

$ pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0
Package wayland-client was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `wayland-client.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'wayland-client', required by 'GDK', not found

Because of that, any application that uses pkg-config to get the location of GTK development headers fails to build.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libgtk-3-dev 3.6.4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-8.8-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 0dee87855b46d310b8d65e121ab4d8e0
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Sat Jan 26 17:59:29 2013
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gtk+3.0
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-24 (2 days ago)

[Rafał Cieślak (rafalcieslak256)]

A *temporary workaround* is to manually edit /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gdk-3.0.pc (this is path on my 64bit system, use locate gdk-3.0.pc to find the file if this path is not present at your system) changing:

Requires.private: gio-unix-2.0 fontconfig x11 xext xinerama xi xrandr xcursor xfixes xcomposite xdamage wayland-client >= 1.0.0 xkbcommon >= 0.2.0 wayland-cursor cairo-xlib cairo pangoft2

to

Requires.private: gio-unix-2.0 fontconfig x11 xext xinerama xi xrandr xcursor xfixes xcomposite xdamage cairo-xlib cairo pangoft2

With that change most applications using GTK should build fine.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+3.0 - 3.6.4-0ubuntu3

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gtk+3.0 (3.6.4-0ubuntu3) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/control.in:
    - Add libwayland-dev and libxkbcommon-dev as dependencies to
      libgtk-3-dev (LP: #1106188)
 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:45:46 -0500