4.8pre1 Build Issues

[Arthur Johnson]

Thanks chief!  I will give that a try once I get back

On 11/26/10, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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