Re: [Ekiga-list] Compiling opal-3.10.1

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 19/07/11 11:59, Antonio Trande wrote:
> 2011/7/18 Eugen Dedu<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>
>
> > On 17/07/11 18:30, Antonio Trande wrote:
> >
> > > Solved with $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/**pkgconfig ./configure  .
> >
> > There is a problem with your machine.  By default, pkg-config looks at
> > /usr/lib/pkgconfig, there is no need to tell it so.
> >
> >  From man pkg-config:
> >        pkg-config retrieves information about packages from special metadata
> > files. These files are
> >        named  after  the  package,  and  has a .pc extension.  On most
> > systems, pkg-config looks in
> >        /usr/lib/pkgconfig, /usr/share/pkgconfig, /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> > and /usr/local/share/pkg‐
> >        config for these files.  It will additionally look in the
> > colon-separated (on Windows, semi‐
> >        colon-separated) list of directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> > environment variable.
> >
> > Since with PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/**pkgconfig ./configure it works, it
> > means that on your system pkg-config does not look in /usr/lib/pkgconfig, so
> > it was somewhat wrongly installed.
> Hi Eugen.
> Making a recap :
>
> $ locate libpt.so
> > /home/ken/CompiledSoftware/ptlib-2.10.1/lib_linux_x86_64/libpt.so
> > /home/ken/CompiledSoftware/ptlib-2.10.1/lib_linux_x86_64/libpt.so.2.10.1
> > /usr/lib/libpt.so
> > /usr/lib/libpt.so.2.10.1
> > /usr/lib64/libpt.so.2.10.1
>
> If i don't use *PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig* , ptlib check  failed.

So the problem in your case is that ptlib.pc is installed in 
/usr/lib/pkgconfig (the classical directory), however on your system it 
should be installed in /usr/lib64/pkgconfig.  This is a new trend, 
called multiarch I think.  We are looking into detail how to solve this 
issue, stay tuned...

--
Eugen