Hi I've been trying to install AimWatch (http://irixbox.com/) and I've gotten myself in a mess of dependencies...unfortunatly I've been running all the source install things from my home directory so I think (but i'm not sure) most of the dependencies installed themselves there except (I think ) the ones the readme said to use --prefix=/blah. Now I think things are having trouble finding eachother, when I run 'make' for AimWatch I get:

checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.4.0... Package glib-2.0 was
not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'glib-2.0' found

configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.4.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

Sorry if I'm not clear...if you need clarification please tell me.

PKGconfig is a tools used by automaked scripts to check that their dependancies are installed.

When glib is installed it creates a file called `glib-2.0.pc' in %PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig.

PKG_CONFIG_PATH is the environmental variable which points to these directories.

'echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH' will probably read something like '/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig', in which case the quickest solution is to find the offending .pc files, and symlink them into this directory.

$ find | grep "\.pc$"
should bring them all up if you have built them with prefix in your home directory.

Alternatively add the extra paths to your PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable.

Also make sure that you add all the %PREFIX/lib directories to your /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root between packages.