Re: Compiling mc 4.8.15

[Russell Urquhart <russurquhart1 verizon net>]

Hi,

I'm suspecting pkg-config was not installed/properly.

I ran the command below, in the directory specified and got a pkg-config command not found.

Should i just delete that whole directory and try reinstallinbg pkg-config?


Thanks,


Russ


On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 09:24:27PM +0100, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:13:35 -0600
> Russell Urquhart <russurquhart1 verizon net> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did that but still got an glib-2.0 couldn't be found or glib is too old error.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > Thanks for all the help!
>
> Russell,
>
> in order to see whether there is a defect in mc's configure or
> something is still wrong with PKG_CONFIG_PATH, try run following in a
> terminal:
>
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=<PATH TO YOUR GLIB INSTALL PREFIX>/lib/pkgconfig pkg-config glib-2.0 --modversion
>
> You should see:
> 2.46.2
>
> If not, PKG_CONFIG_PATH is still not properly setup. You can search for
> glib-2.0.pc, like:
>
> find / -name glib-2.0.pc
>
> and then adjust PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directory, containing
> it.
>
> Regards,
> Andrey
>
>
> > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:25:06PM +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2016-02-06 at 08:08 -0600, Russell Urquhart wrote:
> > > > --PKG_CONFIG_PATH=PATH
> > > >
> > > > when you run ./configure? 
> > >
> > > No, that's
> > >
> > >     export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> > >
> > > before you run ./configure:
> > >
> > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/210210/pkg-config-path-environment-variable
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Sincerely yours,
> > > Yury V. Zaytsev
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