Re: Some problems with configure and libraries

[Basso Marco <marco bl tiscali it>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:

> > Name: libgsf-gnome-1
> > Description: GNOME specific extensions to libgsf
> > Version: 1.7.2
> >
> > (but i have 1.8.2)
>
>
> How do you know you have 1.8.2 ?  As a first step you'll want to
> find out where 1.8.2 is installed and uninstalled the 1.7.2 packages
> (and its devel package).

Thank you for your reply, Jody.

I managed to install 1.2.1 in the end. I'm reporting what i did in case 
anyone running slackware 9.0 should encounter my problems.

The needed libraries were installed, in fact i installed them myself, 
but the configure script wasn't able to see them, because it calls the 
pkg-config function to check their presence, and it seems that 
pkg-config can't see libraries installed out of /usr/lib.
The default install dir for libgsf-1 is /usr/local/lib for slack...

So what i did was to issue the commands:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib

ldconfig

so that the right dir was added to pkg-config's path.

(Also rebooted, dunno if it was necessary)

Then i also uninstalled the 1.1.16 version and the old libraries using 
pkgtool, and succesfully run the installation scripts.

Seems this is a common problem with slack, have a look here also:

http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=3ebbd806%240%2429711%24cc9e4d1f%40news.dial.pipex.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fas_q%3Dpkg-config%2520update%26safe%3Dimages%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26as_ugroup%3D*slackware*%26lr%3Dlang_en%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den

Marco.