Re: [Evolution-hackers] looking for a bit of help with a build failure

[Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com>]

On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 09:37 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 14:02 +0000, Reid Thompson wrote:
> > $ env |egrep "PKG|LD"
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/evo/lib
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/evo/lib/pkgconfig/
> >
> > $ pkg-config -version
> > 0.28
>
>       Hi,
> I have the same pkg-config version and the .pc file content (except of
> version, it shows 3.13.2 for me), but the output is correct for me.
> Please run:
>   $ pkg-config --libs libedataserver-1.2 --debug
>
> do not paste it here, the debugging info is too long, but check where it
> got it. The most interesting part starts at lines which contain "from
> file" string. I used:
>   $ pkg-config --libs libedataserver-1.2 --debug 2>&1 | grep "from file"
> to see that
>    Reading 'libedataserver-1.2' from file '$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/libedataserver-1.2.pc'
> and the rest of the required libraries goes from the system directory
> for me. The thing is that the debug output of pkg-config shows many
> useful details, thus it's possible to see where the values are taken
> from. I hope it'll shed some light on the issue.
>
> Also, I guess "Path position" defines how the string is concatenated,
> where it prints to me 1 for libedataserver-1.2 and camel-1.2, and number
> 3 for anything else. If the libedataserver-1.2 looks correct, can the
> problem be with camel-1.2?
>       Bye,
>       Milan

ugh - Thank you for the help Milan, and sorry for the noise.  Your
request to ask for --debug information led me to the answer.  pkg-config
responded that --debug was an unknown option, which led me to discover
that my distro had defaulted to installing

     Homepage:            https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf
     Description:         pkg-config compatible replacement with no dependencies other than ANSI C89

rather than 

     Homepage:            http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/
     Description:         Package config system that manages compile/link flags

once I corrected that, things appeared as they should.

Again, thank you, and sorry for the noise.

reid