Re: glibmm building and sigc++ problem

[Paul Davis <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>]

TJ,

pkg-config needs a path to the lib directory where sigc++ was 
installed.  Pretty much what happened is when you installed those 
packages from tarball they got put into /usr/local/include and 
/usr/local/lib ( not /usr/include and /usr/lib ) which is standard 
behavior for building software.

pkg-config needs to see /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig so that it can find the 
neccessary package information.  You can add paths to search by 
exporting a PKG_CONFIG_PATH that lists directories to search.

ie something like export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/  If I recall correctly.

To test it and see if its working, try using:
pkg-config sigc++-2.0 --cflags --libs

That should print out the neccessary stuff for linking against sigc.

You'll come to find pkg-config is a very very nice utility for building 
software if you use it alot.  Hope that helps.

Paul

tj wrote:

> I am trying to install inkscape which requires glibmm anf gtkmm. 
> However I can not get glibmm to configure. the complaint.
>
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `sigc++-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'sigc++-2.0' found
> configure: error: Package requirements (sigc++-2.0 >= 2.0.0 glib-2.0 
> >= 2.6.0 gobject-2.0 >= 2.6.0 gmodule-2.0 >= 2.6.0) were not met.
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>
> Alternatively you may set the GLIBMM_CFLAGS and GLIBMM_LIBS 
> environment variables
> to avoid the need to call pkg-config.  See the pkg-config man page for
> more details.
>
> I installed  libsigcc 2.0.16 form tar ball and a  ldconfig returns
>        libsigc-2.0.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0
>        libsigc-2.0.so (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libsigc-2.0.so
>
> So why is the glibmm configure unhappy...
> While I did the original Linux install with Slackware 10.1, I do not 
> use just packages. I get the latest tar ball from the host site, like 
> glibmm and sigc.
>
> Does the configure script require that all requirments HAVE TO BE 
> INSTALLED via some kid of package management system rather then just 
> chacking fo the presense of the libraries?
>
> I've never had a configure script saying that package information has 
> to be there.
>
> tj
>
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