Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Tarball generation issues

["Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson gmail com>]

>> > Also when doing the library check I get the following opal error if
>> > the speex libs aren't installed (should it not be checking for
>> > speex?).
>> >
>> > checking for PTLIB... yes
>> > checking for OPAL... configure: error: Package requirements (opal >=
>> > 3.4.2) were not met:
>> >
>> > Package speexdsp was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `speexdsp.pc'
>> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> > Package 'speexdsp', required by 'opal', not found
>> >
>> > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>> > installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>> >
>> > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables OPAL_CFLAGS
>> > and OPAL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>> > See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>>
>> What happens is that opal asks, through its pkg-config file, that
>> libspeex-dev be installed when another package depending on opal, such
>> as ekiga, is configured.  This is an error (not -dev, but the library is
>> needed), but I do not know how to solve it for the moment.
>
> Are we sure it is an error ?
>
> I would have supposed it was a feature of pkgconfig. Anyway, what is
> sure is that it is not ekiga's job to request speexdsp, so if anything
> has to be fixed, it is in opal.pc.
>
> And what I don't understand is that I do not get this error, however,
> speexdsp.pc is not on my system !?

Weird, I had to scratch my head for a sec as I had opal-devel
installed, but not speex devel.

Peter