XFCE4 FreeBSD 5.1 install problems

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:41, Bram Van Dam wrote:
> At 22:33 1/09/2003, you wrote:
> ><snip>
> >
> >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?
> 
> It is installed and it is in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig I believe. I have 
> properly set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH as well.
> 
> >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.
> 
> Checking the contents sounds like a plan. Though I'm 99.99% certain that it 
> is the correct version number.
> 
> >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 ...
> 
> Then I'm afraid it's probably broken. The FreeBSD port uses pkg-config 
> 0.15.0 I believe (may be mistaking), is this version known to have problems 
> and should I switch to an older version?
> 
> On a side note, I have tried a few unorthodox methods as well, to no avail. 
> I was, erhm, kind (or sadistic?) enough to massacre the configure file and 
> remove the part where it checks for the file, but then new errors emerge so 
> I guess that's not a very good thing to do.
> 
> I think I'm going to destroy my pkg-config.
> 

FWIW, I'm using freebsd5.1 and do not have any of the problems you
encountered. pkgconfig is 0.15.0

regards,

Edscott

> Thx,
>   - Bram. 
> 
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