Re: Trying to build on Mint 20 ... [msg2mw gmail com]

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Thanks to Pawel for pointing out what I should have seen.  You did have  
the library itself, but not the files which tell configure where to  
find it.

On 2021.10.05 16:47, Mike Witt via balsa-list wrote:
> It looks like that was it. I must have been missing that library. Now  
> it configures and builds.
> Thank you so much for all your help!
> -Mike
>
> On 10/05/2021 02:04:35 PM, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > libenchant-2.so.2.2.15 or similar is just the shared library that  
> > can be
> > used to execute balsa but insufficient to compile. enchant.pc is  
> > typically
> > a part of a 'dev' package containing configuration, header files, and
> > sometimes some configuration. The dev package is called  
> > libenchant-2-dev on
> > Ubuntu.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:24 AM Mike Witt via balsa-list <
> > balsa-list gnome org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 10/04/2021 04:41:44 PM, Jack via balsa-list wrote:
> > > > On 2021.10.04 18:29, Mike Witt via balsa-list wrote:
> > > >>> Those look OK to me.  Can you post part of config.log?
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm so sorry. I didn't really know about config.log. I'm really  
> > not
> > > >> used to doing this. There are some very obvious errors in  
> > there, for
> > > >> example:
> > > > When things go well, config.log becomes irrelevant.  It helps  
> > when
> > > > things do not go well, as now.  Also, "obvious" is a very  
> > relative
> > > > term.  Once you have much more experience tracking down problems  
> > like
> > > > this, you will recognize that those particular errors are really  
> > not
> > > > important at all (more below.)
> > > >>
> > > >> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
> > > >> gcc: fatal error: no input files
> > > >> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did  
> > you
> > > >> mean '--version'?
> > > >> gcc: fatal error: no input files
> > > >> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
> > > >> gcc: fatal error: no input files
> > > >> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did  
> > you
> > > >> mean '--version'?
> > > >> gcc: fatal error: no input files
> > > >>
> > > >> Do you want me to post the whole log?
> > >
> > > > It should not be necessary, but don't try to extract single  
> > lines.
> > > > Post the contiguous set of the last twenty or so lines before:
> > > >
> > > > ## ---------------- ##
> > > > ## Cache variables. ##
> > > > ## ---------------- ##
> > >
> > > Sorry, I thought I did that. Here they are. It seems to be looking  
> > for
> > > "enchant.pc" -- as far as I can tell, I don't have that (or I don't
> > > know where to look for it).
> > >
> > > configure:14357: $? = 1
> > > configure:14371: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors " enchant !=  
> > 1.6.1
> > > "
> > > Package enchant was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `enchant.pc'
> > > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > > No package 'enchant' found
> > > configure:14374: $? = 1
> > > configure:14388: result: no
> > > No package 'enchant' found
> > > configure:14404: error: Package requirements ( enchant != 1.6.1 )  
> > were
> > > not met:
> > >
> > > No package 'enchant' found
> > >
> > > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> > > installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> > >
> > > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables SPELL_CFLAGS
> > > and SPELL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> > > See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> > >
> > > ## ---------------- ##
> > > ## Cache variables. ##
> > > ## ---------------- ##
> > >
> > > ac_cv_build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> > > ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu=yes
> > > ac_cv_env_AUTOCRYPT_CFLAGS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_AUTOCRYPT_CFLAGS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_AUTOCRYPT_LIBS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_AUTOCRYPT_LIBS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_BALSA_AB_CFLAGS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_BALSA_AB_CFLAGS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_BALSA_AB_LIBS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_BALSA_AB_LIBS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_BALSA_CFLAGS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_BALSA_CFLAGS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_BALSA_LIBS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_BALSA_LIBS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_CANBERRA_CFLAGS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_CANBERRA_CFLAGS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_CANBERRA_LIBS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_CANBERRA_LIBS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_CC_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_CC_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_GCR_CFLAGS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_GCR_CFLAGS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_GCR_LIBS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_GCR_LIBS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_GPGME_CFLAGS_set=
> > > ac_cv_env_GPGME_CFLAGS_value=
> > > ac_cv_env_GPGME_LIBS_set=
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