4.8pre1 Build Issues

[Peter Tribble]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Arthur Johnson
<arthur.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install 4.8pre1 in /opt/xfce4.8pre1 so it doesn't
> interfere with the "stable" install, however I'm having issues with
> building the libraries.
>
> The library libxfcegui4-4.7.0 failed.
>
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/xfce4.8pre1
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/xfce4.8pre1
>
> Error message:
> checking for libxfce4util-1.0 >= 4.6.0... not found
> *** The required package libxfce4util-1.0 was not found on your system.
> *** Please install libxfce4util-1.0 (atleast version 4.6.0) or adjust
> *** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> *** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
> *** pkg-config is able to find it.
>
> As you can see, I exported the path like I thought I should, but its
> still failing.

You need to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to where the .pc files are, not just the
prefix, and also add its default value so it can find the regular packages on
your system. So something like:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/xfce4.8pre1/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig ...

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