[Linux-disciples] How to help ./configure find what it needs.

[Adam Kessel]

I don't think any of us on this list have direct experience with SUSE,
although this sounds like general building problems.  You're actually not
trying to configure it but to compile it. The configure script is the
first step in compiling--it creates a makefile which is then used to
build the package.

The first thing I would recommend trying is see if there are any SUSE
packages of ardour available. That would save you the trouble of trying
to build it from source. If not, I believe you can install Red Hat
packages on SUSE, presumably with RPM, so you might try that.

Failing that, can you type pkg-config at the prompt and actually get a
result?  It sounds like it's not in your path.

If you know where pkg-config is, and it's not in the path, you would
type:

export PKG_CONFIG=/usr/bin/wherever

but generally pkg-config should just be in /usr/bin, which should be in
the normal path (see echo $PATH).

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:07:01PM -0800, Karl Sokol wrote:
> I am running Suse 9 and have been having problems
> configuring certain packages - most recently ardour. 
> Everyhthing goes o.k. until I get ... 
> 
> 
> *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make
> sure it is
> *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment
> variable
> *** to the full path to pkg-config.
> *** Or see
> ttp://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get
> pkg-config.
> configure: error: Library requirements (libxml-2.0 >=
> 2.5) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> environment variable if your libraries are in a
> nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> 
> However, pkg-config and libxml-2.0 are installed.  So,
> how do I "set the PKG_CONFIG variable as the message
> suggests?
> 
> 
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