"pkg-config not found" error when trying to build makedepend (needed for Xorg).

Quon · 11-14-2011, 01:57 AM

I'm trying to build makedepend from here:http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...akedepend.html, but when I run configure I get the this error

Code:

configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old.  Make sure it
is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
path to pkg-config.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables X_CFLAGS
and X_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I do not have pkg-config installed.
I could not find pkg-config in the LFS 7 book at all, but it is in the LFS 7 rc1, so I tried the instructions from LFS 7 rc 1 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...kg-config.html), but when I run make I get this error

Code:

make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/pkg-config/pkg-config-0.26'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DPKG_CONFIG_PC_PATH="\"/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig\"" -DPKG_CONFIG_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_PATH="\"/usr/include\"" -DPKG_CONFIG_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATH="\"/usr/lib\"" -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I./popt   -g -Wall -O2 -g -O2 -MT pkg.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/pkg.Tpo -c -o pkg.o pkg.c
In file included from pkg.c:25:0:
pkg.h:23:18: fatal error: glib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [pkg.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/pkg-config/pkg-config-0.26'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/pkg-config/pkg-config-0.26'
make: *** [all] Error 2

weibullguy · 11-14-2011, 08:27 PM

Because you don't have glib installed. pkg-config prior to version 0.26 shipped with a copy of glib.h that was sufficient to build pkg-config. That is not the case with 0.26. If you follow the pkg-config instructions in the stable BLFS documentation, it will tell you glib is a dependency.

On the other hand, makedepend is not required to install Xorg if all you want is a GUI (at least it didn't used to be). Of course, you will need glib if you plan to use GTK2.