Bug 41081

Summary:	pkg-config wont install
Product:	pkg-config	Reporter:	jacobisrael <americancafe>
Component:	src	Assignee:	Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Mac OS X (All)
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Description jacobisrael 2011-09-21 06:11:36 UTC

I installed gettext (something JHBuild should have done) and
JHBuild still didn't find it.
I told JHBuild to ignore the module. Then it had a problem with Cairo.
I installed pkg-config (something JHBuild should have done), but it wanted glib.
I installed glib(something JHBuild should have done), but it wanted pkg-config.


GLIB INSTALL file says:
GLib-2.0 requires pkg-config, which is tool for tracking the
compilation flags needed for libraries

But, pkg-config doesn't work.

configure: error: pkg-config and glib-2.0 not found, please set GLIB_CFLAGS and GLIB_LIBS to the correct values
 
In the INSTALL file, there is nothing to explain WHAT values GLIB_CFLAGS and GLIB_LIBS
should be set to, or HOW to set those flags.

Here is a question:
If users know SO MUCH about terminal, configuration shells and installs, 
how come they are just NOW downloading GTK?

Who is your audience, someone who has been programming 20 years?

configure: error: pkg-config >=  required but not found (http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/)
*** Error during phase configure of cairo: ########## Error running ./configure --prefix /Users/jacobisrael/gtk/inst --libdir '/Users/jacobisrael/gtk/inst/lib' --enable-pdf --enable-quartz --enable-xlib=no --without-x   *** [18/24]

 

 
I have a MacBook OSX 10.4 Dual Intel Core
All I wanted was to make some graphics with C++.
So, maybe you could just tell me how to get C++ to talk to X11.
Then I can give up on GTK.

Thank you,
Mr. Israel

Comment 1 Guilherme Fernandes de Carvalho 2011-10-10 16:11:37 UTC

I was having the same issue while trying to build libcurl. Turns out OS X includes a _really_ old version of pkg-config, which oddly seems to be required to build pkg-config 0.26. Installing 0.25 then 0.26 worked out fine for me - you should give it a try =)

Comment 2 Dan Nicholson 2012-05-14 08:54:49 UTC

pkg-config-0.26 created a bootstrapping problem with glib that we didn't think would be a big issue, but it's turned into headache for a lot of people. The next release adds back a bundled glib that you can use to bootstrap pkg-config on a system without glib installed. You can enable it by passing --with-internal-glib to configure.

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