XFCE4 FreeBSD 5.1 install problems

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at moongroup.com
Mon Sep 1 22:33:56 CEST 2003


> Included is the output from the configure script from libxfcegui from RC2. RC3 returns the same output, expcept of course for another library version.
> 
> If you need any other details by all means just ask so.
> 
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checking for libxfce4util-1.0 >= 3.99.2...
Package libxfce4util-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxfce4util-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libxfce4util-1.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (libxfce4util-1.0 >= 3.99.2) not
met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your
libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
Package libxfce4util-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxfce4util-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
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Right, so now we are back to square one. The package cannot find
libxfce4util. So, can you try to find the libxfce4util-1.0.pc file? It
is installed in ${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig/. Do you have it?

If you don't there was a problem with the libxfce4util install. If you
do have it, check the contents and see what the version number is.

If the version number is correct, you have to tell pkg-config where to
look. In bash do 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'. In
csh it is something like 'setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'.

If that doesn't work, you're pkg-config is broken ...

	Jasper




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