On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:33:40AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:41:07PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:44:05PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:00:07AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:07:21PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > > In any case, I manged to get autogen.sh to run, only to have configure fail > > > > > looking for a file called sndfile.pc. It seems to be searching for this > > > > > with /usr/bin/pkg-config. > > > > > > > > You should be able to find the answer to all such questions using > > > > http://packages.debian.org/, trying various values for the Distribution > > > > field. > > > > > > > Actually, if I understand what's going on here. The configure script is > > > trying to use something called /usr/bin/pkg-config to search for installed > > > packages. > > > > Ah....pkg-config is, AIUI, designed to replace the million and one > > 'libX-config' programs you currently have installed. It gives you a > > simple way to find out what compiler options and header files were used > > to buid a particular library. GTK2 uses this, and seems to have become > > the new standard... > > > > > I was hoping to get some insight into this tool, and how well integrated it > > > is into "the Debian way" of doing things. > > > > For packages that support it, the requisite information will be in the > > libbleh-dev package. I'm not sure if there's any formal plan to convert > > packages over to it or not, but it does seem like a better way to handle > > it... > > While thta is probably a noble long term goal. It seems to me, that in the > meantime, it means compiling something that is aware of this tool (eg > Ardour) will be well nigh impossible on a Debian machine. > > Or am I missing something important here? > > Here is the scenario. I try to build, let's say Ardour. It's configure > script is aware of pkg-config, but all the requisite libraries, which _are_ > present on my debina machine, have not yet bee converted to update > pkg-config. This seems to garuntee that the packages I;m trying to build's > configure script will fail.
Hmmm...I was under the impression that pkg-config was an upstream thing, not a Debian-specific thing; gtk/gdk/gmodule/etc all seem to use pkg-config here. Are you running sarge? Maybe older versions didn't use it? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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