Cant install xffm or xffm-icons

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 14:06, Dan Gordon wrote:
> Have been playing with XFce4 for a few days now, love it :-)
> But i have tried every thing i can think of and still no go.  I had no
> problems with every other rpm from Todd Slater,s site exept the two
> xffm files.  I have even downloaded the two binaries to see if i could
> install them, no go. On configure i get this error.
> 
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking for dbh-1.0 >= 1.0... Package dbh-1.0 was not found in the
> pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing
> `dbh-1.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'dbh-1.0' found
> 
> configure: error: Library requirements (dbh-1.0 >= 1.0) not met;
> consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your
> libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> 
> Now i looked and the libdbh-1.0.so.1 file is in /usr/local/lib/
> this is the same file the rpm complains about as well.
> 
> What should i do from here ?

What about cheating and doing a symlink from the dbh libs in
/usr/local/lib to /usr/lib - then rerun ldconfig and see if you can
configure/make the source after that? (Sometimes it works)

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