pkg-config

[Rick Sivernell]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:51:47 +0100
Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> wrote:

> * Rick Sivernell 
> 
> | I ran pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 and libpng12.pc is in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> |
> | RSivernell:/opt/downloads/xfce4/xfce-4.2.3.2/src # pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0
> | Package libpng12 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> | Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libpng12.pc'
> | to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> | Package 'libpng12', required by 'cairo', not found
> | RSivernell:/opt/downloads/xfce4/xfce-4.2.3.2/src #
> 
> It needs to find the libpng12.pc, as you have listed below.
> 
> I believe you might want to reconfigure pkg-config with
> --with-pc-path=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> as a parameter to configure.  make; make install
> 
> This will fix the problem permanently, or you can just add
> /usr/lib64/pkgconfig to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
> 
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Seems like that has made some of my ./configures work. Need to do more.

Thanks All

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