[Thunar-dev] Thunar & PKG_CONFIG

[Peter]

Philippe Brisset wrote:

> holla !
>
> Look, i a have just compilled exo-0.3.1.4alpha2-r20235
> <http://thunar.xfce.org/download/releases/alpha2/exo-0.3.1.4alpha2-r20235.tar.bz2>
> and then install it .Right now i try to configure Thunar 0.2.2 and
> finally i get this message, there the ultimate lines on the standart
> out : " checking for pkg-config >= 0.9.0... 0.19
> checking for exo-0.3 >= 0.3.1.4... found, but
> *** The required package exo-0.3 was found on your system,
> *** but the installed version () is too old.
> *** Please upgrade exo-0.3 to atleast version 0.3.1.4
> <http://0.3.1.4/>, or adjust
> *** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed
> *** the new version of the package in a nonstandard prefix so
> *** pkg-config is able to find it."
>
> What that ? I dont understant ..Exo was found but... too old ..I have
> the right PKG_CONFIG PATH in my "environment" ?
> $export : declare -x PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/bin:/usr/bin
> :/usr/lib:/usr/local:/usr/local/lib/"
> it's ok no ?Or i have miss-understood something ?
> Thanks in advance

PKG_CONFIG_PATH tells pkg-config where to find .pc files, which are
usually in $prefix/lib/pkgconfig.  If you just did plain ./configure,
then your exo installation prefix is /usr/local/.  Therefore, you need
to add /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig to your PKG_CONFIG_PATH. :)

> philippe
>
> ps : excuse me for my poor english
>
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