Re: autogen

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:49:42PM +1000, Harald Richard Ashburner wrote:
> Robert Jerrard said:
> > 2. In response to: consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them, I tried:
> > [bob penrose scratch_dir]$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/
> > [bob penrose scratch_dir]$ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> > /usr/lib/
> > prior to autogen but still received the above comment on trying autogen. What now?
>
> should that not be 
> $export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> where pkgconfing is a directory containing the meta info for installed
> packages?

That is correct
    PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig"

> you might like to try
> $cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libgsf
> should tell you if it's in the /usr/lib directory, what version etc. If
> it comes up with the error "no such ..." then maybe rpm has installed it
> 'ahem' someplace else.

    cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libgsf*