Re: glibmm building and sigc++ problem

[Matthias Langer <mlangc gmx at>]

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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Look after the file 'sigc++-2.0.pc'. On my system this is 
'/usr/lib/pkgconfig/sigc++-2.0.pc'. If you don't have this file, i guess 
theres something wrong with your installation. If you have this file, 
check the variable
PKG_CONFIG_PATH:

from 'man pkg-config'
PKG_CONFIG_PATH
A colon-separated (on Windows, semicolon-separated) list of directories 
to search for .pc  files.
The  default  directory  will  always  be  searched after searching the 
path; the default is lib-
dir/pkgconfig where libdir is the libdir where pkg-config was installed.

Make sure that your pc file is either in lib-dir/pkgconfig or 
PKG_CONFIG_PATH is correctly set to your custom location. If you sorted 
this out, compiling glibmm sould work ... at least i hope so.

HTH,
Matthias Langer