Re: [gnome-db] configure did not find libgda.pc

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 15:03 -0600, Neil Zanella wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just installed the latest libgda-1.1.99 in a configure make make
> install standard way
> on Fedora Core 2 Linux. Then I went to configure libgnomedb-1.1.99. And I get:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgda.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'libgda' found
> 
> configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0 libgda >=
> 1.1.1) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment
> variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config
> can find them.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> But the file is here: why was it not foind by the configure script. I
> have more files under
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig but I think /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig should be
> inspected first somewhoew,
> cause it's going to contain more recent stuff anyways.
> 
> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libgda.pc
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> So, perhaps the configure.in or configure.am or whatever should be fixed?
> 
no, you need to use the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to let pkg-config know
about extra directories with .pc files. In this case:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

then try again
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>