XFCE4 FreeBSD 5.1 install problems

[Bram Van Dam]

At 22:59 31/08/2003, you wrote:
>Is your PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable properly set?

I have set it to the proper directory, as well as tried a few other 
directories, to no avail. I keep getting the error that the .pc file is >= 
3.99.2 (or 3.99.3 when using RC3) or something along those lines. :(.

  - Bram.

> >From the man page:
>
>pkg‐config retrieves information about packages from  special  metadata
>files. These files are named after the package, with the extension .pc.
>
>By default, pkg‐config looks in the directory prefix/lib/pkgconfig  for
>these  files;  it  will  also  look in the colon‐separated (on Windows,
>semicolon‐separated) list of  directories  specified  by  the
>PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.
>
>Cheers,
>Olivier.
>
>On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 22:53, Bram Van Dam wrote:
> > Mmmm, g'day,
> >
> > I seem to be having a few install problems on my shiny FreeBSD 5.1 box.
> > I have tried both FreeBSD's port of RC2 and the newer RC3 source, and both
> > give the same problem, they tell me the libxfce4util-1.0.pc library can't
> > be found.
> > I am -- of course being the nice person that I am -- nicely following the
> > manual and am installing things in the correct order, this error, as you
> > have guessed, comes from the libxfce4util installation.
> > I have tried everything, I've changed the library directories in my path,
> > tried different versions, etc etc etc, and it keeps giving the same
> > accursed error. Why is it doing this? And better yet, is there a
> > workaround? (Preferably one that does not include my rewriting the entire
> > system)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >   - Bram.
> >
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>
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