SOLVED: Re: 4.8pre1 Build Issues

[Arthur Johnson]

XFCE 4.8 pre 1 built without issues once I set that pkg-config
variable.  I'll write an article on it when I get back on vacation.

All in all, I'm pleased with the progress of my fav DE.  Great job devs!

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Arthur Johnson
<arthur.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ...
>>
>> --
>> -Peter Tribble
>> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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