xfce4-4.3.90.2-installer can't find vte location

[Dale]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
 > I dunno what would cause this problem, maybe your system has a second
 > vte.pc for a version < 0.11.11.
 >
 > Anyway, here's a workaround to get you started:

Thanks for the response Benedikt.

Terminal's configure failed unfortunately. Pertinent excerpts from the 
error log follow, together with more detail, which may hopefully shed 
more light on the issue.

----- <snip> -----
# Environment variables
PATH is set to 
"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt/bin"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set to "/usr/lib/pkgconfig"
...
checking for vte >= 0.11.11... not found
*** The required package vte was not found on your system.
*** Please install vte (atleast version 0.11.11) 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.
!! Failed to configure Terminal, see the errors above
!! for details on the problem.
----- </snip> -----

I noticed from a previous build that PKG_CONFIG_PATH was set to "", so I 
exported the correct path prior to executing ./bootstrap.sh.

On executing the installer, it appears to find pkg-config, which as 
expected, is in /usr/bin.

Verifying file integrity... OK.
Extracting the installer... OK.
Checking for usable C compiler... gcc
Checking for usable C++ compiler... g++
Checking for GNU make... gmake
Checking for package config tool... pkg-config
Checking for GLib (GModule) >= 2.2.0... detected 2.10.2 in /usr
Checking for Gtk+ >= 2.2.0... detected 2.8.17 in /usr
Compiling installer-gui... OK.
Running installer-gui...

I'm running Rubix Linux, which uses pacman (a la Arch Linux) and the 
file list gives:

$ pacman -Ql pkgconfig
pkgconfig /usr/
pkgconfig /usr/bin/
pkgconfig /usr/bin/pkg-config
pkgconfig /usr/doc/
pkgconfig /usr/doc/pkgconfig-0.15.0/
pkgconfig /usr/doc/pkgconfig-0.15.0/AUTHORS
pkgconfig /usr/doc/pkgconfig-0.15.0/COPYING
pkgconfig /usr/doc/pkgconfig-0.15.0/ChangeLog
pkgconfig /usr/doc/pkgconfig-0.15.0/NEWS
pkgconfig /usr/doc/pkgconfig-0.15.0/README
pkgconfig /usr/man/
pkgconfig /usr/man/man1/
pkgconfig /usr/man/man1/pkg-config.1.gz
pkgconfig /usr/share/
pkgconfig /usr/share/aclocal/
pkgconfig /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4

$ pacman -Qi pkgconfig
Name           : pkgconfig
Version        : 0.15.0-1
Groups         : None
Packager       : Rubix Linux (http://www.rubix-os.org)
URL            :
License        : None
Architecture   : i486
Size           : 139259
Build Date     : Mon Jan 17 07:00:11 2005 UTC
Install Date   : Thu Jul 13 12:21:15 2006 UTC
Install Script : No
Reason:        : explicitly installed
Provides       : None
Depends On     : glibc
Required By    : None
Conflicts With : None
Description    : pkgconfig pkg-config is a system for managing library
                  compile/link flags that works with automake and 
autoconf. It
                  replaces the ubiquitous *-config scripts you may have 
seen with
                  a single tool. See the man page that comes with 
pkg-config for
                  full documentation.

Also, after running updatedb and locate, the only vte.pc on my system 
is: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/vte.pc