Error installing plugin

[John Shane]

Thanks VERY much, Brian.  I will work on this today.  John

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:17:46 -0500 (EST)
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, John Shane wrote:
> 
> > <snip>
> > checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... (cached) yes
> > checking for locales directory... ${prefix}/share/locale
> > checking for pkg-config... no
> > *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is
> > *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable
> > *** to the full path to pkg-config.
> > *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config.
> > configure: error: Library requirements (xfce4-panel-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.
> 
> that error is a bit misleading actually.  your problem is not that the 
> libraries are in a nonstandard prefix, the problem is that the 
> pkg-config script isn't installed, and it can't even begin to find the 
> libraries.
> 
> > I have a RH9 system. I installed Xfce4 using RPMs and am aware that 
> > the directories used are slightly different from the source defaults. 
> > I set my PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable using "export 
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig"  When I check env PKG_CONFIG_PATH 
> > is pointing to the right directory with the xfce4 *.pc files.  I also 
> > went to the freedesktop site and downloaded the pkg-config tarball and 
> > tried to install it.  "Tried" is the operative word there.  I don't 
> > think I got it right though because I still can't get the plugins to 
> > work.
> 
> your directory listings show that the rh9 rpms installed xfce in /usr, 
> so you shouldn't need to mess with the PKG_CONFIG_PATH env var.  what 
> you should do is get an RPM for pkg-config and install that.  i found 
> the one that comes with RH9 on rpmfind.net:
> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm
> 
> that's not the latest version, but that shouldn't matter and should work 
> for you.  before you install it, if you have the configured source tree 
> still around for the pkg-config you downloaded and tried to install 
> yourself, try running 'make uninstall' (as root) in that source 
> directory to remove any random files that have the potential to conflict 
> with the RPM (but if you can't do this, it should still be ok).
> 
> if you opt to update to the version of pkg-config that you downloaded 
> from freedesktop.org, make sure you install it like:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> su -c 'make install'  (or sudo make install or whatever)
> 
> good luck,
> brian
> 
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