xfce4-4.3.90.2-installer can't find vte location

James Westby jw+xfce at jameswestby.net
Thu Jul 13 14:38:28 CEST 2006


On (13/07/06 14:25), Dale wrote:
> 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> -----
>

Hi,

What does running

$ pkg-config --print-errors --exists vte

and

$ pkg-config --print-errors --exists "vte >= 0.11.11"

yield on your system? If both of them work with no error then it is a
problem with the build environment.

James





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