[gst-devel] plugins-good configure fails on FC6 finding liboil

[Tim Müller]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 03:33 -0800, Steve DeLaney wrote:
 
Hi Steve,

> when attempting to build gst-plugins-good-0.10.6  on Fedora 6
>  
> ./configure fails with 
>  
> configure: error: liboil-0.3 is required
>  
> but it exists in /usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0
>  
> can anyone offer  a suggestion on how to fix this?  add a link
> in /usr/lib ???

No, don't ever add links or copy files yourself in /usr/lib - that just
messes up your system and makes it completely unsupportable in the long
run.

You are probably missing the liboil -devel packages for your distro, ie.
the package that has all the header files and the

   /usr/lib/pkgconfig/liboil-0.3.pc

file for pkg-config (this is what configure is looking for).

   $ pkg-config --modversion liboil-0.3

should show a version if things are set up right.

 Cheers
  -Tim