Re: bootstrap/mozilla build doesn't see libidl

["billg" <billg f-m fm>]

Thanks.  I was building Mozilla first because the Garnome docs say Gaim
and Evolution won't build unless the libraries from the 1.7 series are
available.  SuSE ships with something from the 1.6 series and hasn't
provided an official update.

billg

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:15:33 -0400, "Charles Wight"
<cwight optonline net> said:
> Hello,
> 
> libIDL is part of the "platform".  As long as it compiles prior to
> Mozilla, you should not have an issue.  The "pc" file will be installed
> in ${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig.
> 
> cwight
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 16:34, billg wrote:
> > Using the new 2.8.0 Garnome on SuSE 9.1 Pro, the Mozilla build in
> > bootstrap fails, complaining that:
> > 
> > "checking for libIDL-2.0 >= 0.8.0... Package libIDL-2.0 was not found in
> > the pkg-config search path.
> > "Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libIDL-2.0.pc'
> > "to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > "No package 'libIDL-2.0' found"
> > 
> > However, libIDL-2.0 (0.8.4 from the gnome ftp site) is installed and the
> > pkgconfig directory (/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig in this case) contains
> > libIDL-2.0.pc and is in PKG_CONFIG_PATH. 
> > 
> > Anyone know what's going on?
> > 
> > SuSE ships with an older Mozilla that I haven't removed.  Any chance
> > that's gumming up the works?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > billg
>