[ale] pkg-config --define-variable error

[JK]

And before I get all jumped on by the clueful masses,
this might work better:

  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
  pkg-config --libs taglib-sharp

(There may be existing stuff in PKG_CONFIG_PATH that's
important.)

-- JK

JK wrote:
> OK.  You can try this (it worked for me):
> 
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> pkg-config --libs taglib-sharp
> 
> If that works, then ./configure should work (in the same
> shell; ./configure needs PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set).
> 
> Basically, PKG_CONFIG_PATH needs to be set to the directory
> containing taglib-sharp.pc.
> 
> -- JK
> 
> Marc Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:15 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net 
>> <mailto:jknapka at kneuro.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Marc Ferguson wrote:
>>
>>      >    
>>     --define-variable=taglib-sharp=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/taglib-sharp.pc
>>      >      > Must specify package names on the command line
>>      >
>>      >     Just a guess, but it doesn't look like there are any package
>>     names
>>      >     on that command line?
>>      >
>>      > I'm a linux noob.  What do you mean by that?  I looked at the man
>>     pages
>>      > for pkg-config and I thought I ran the command correctly, but It
>>     seems
>>      > I'm not.
>>
>>     I'm just saying that the error seems to indicate that you're supposed
>>     to name a package on the command line, and that doesn't seem to have
>>     been done.  I've never used pkg-config myself. Well, until just now.
>>
>>      $ pkg-config --libs libc
>>      Package libc was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>>
>>     Not very helpful.  Apparently some meta-data has to be generated
>>     before pkg-config can do its thing, and that hasn't been done on
>>     my system.
>>
>>     What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
>>
>>     -- JK
>>
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>> I'm trying to install Banshee 1.0 via source and during ./configure it 
>> tells me that taglib-sharp is not there.  So; I download and installed 
>> it via source - no problem.  I ran ./configure for banshee again and it 
>> says the same thing.
>>
>> ----
>> checking for NUNIT... no
>> configure: WARNING: Could not find nunit: tests will not be available.
>> checking for TAGLIB_SHARP... configure: error: Package requirements 
>> (taglib-sharp >= 2.0.0) were not met:
>>
>> No package 'taglib-sharp' found
>>
>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>
>> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables TAGLIB_SHARP_CFLAGS
>> and TAGLIB_SHARP_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>> -----
>>
>> So; it looks like I need to do something with PKG_CONFIG_PATH or 
>> pkg-config in order for the system to recognize that taglib-sharp is 
>> installed.  Currently it looks like it installed it in my /usr/local/lib 
>> and the system is setup to look in /usr/lib.
>>
>> -- 
>> Marc F.
>>
>> "..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to 
>> come.." -Rev1:4
>>
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