I am trying to install a program which requires some of the gift packages. When I try to configure the gift-openft-0.2.1.2 package. When configuring, I get this error message: checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for libgift >= 0.11.4 libgift < 0.12.0... Package libgift was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgift.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libgift' found

configure: error: Library requirements (libgift >= 0.11.4 libgift < 0.12.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

I checked if the rpm is installed, and it tells me it is.
[root@linuxlaptop gift-openft-0.2.1.2]# rpm -q libgift
libgift-0.11.4-1

I'm lost. I believe the file libgift.pc is in the libgift package? Any ideas?

echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
locate libgift\.pc

If locate returns something that's not in
$PKG_CONFIG_PATH add it to $PKG_CONFIG_PATH



Cheers,
Tink

When you locate the pc file, you add the path you found it in to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable like this:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=path to pc file you found

If there are multiple paths, seperate them with a colon. My pc files are in:
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/lib/pkgconfig

so I would do this: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig

Good luck!

Paul

Thanks for the help. Unfortunatly, that didn't work. It didn't return anything.

That's a bit odd ... in this case, modfiy the locate
statement a bit
locate \.pc
That should return ALL pkg_config configuration
files ... have a look at the output.


Cheers,
Tink

It returned a bunch of things as imagined. But this did stick out like a sore thumb.

That location, to me, suggests that you didn't
do a "make install" ...


Cheers,
Tink

No, I got as far as making a ./configure when this problem occured.

Ummm ...

!=
You need to have one installed to configure the other.
And you haven't .... or your slocate database is too
old ... if this is the case I can't tell you what you did
wrong ;)


Cheers,
Tink

Hmmm. I went back to the gift.sourceforge webpage and started reading up more info. I found out I am not the only one with this problem. The good news is somebody has created a patch (for what appears to be my problem). http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?grou...18&atid=411727 Now to just figure out how to install this patch. Hopefully this is will slove this problem. Thank you again for your help.

Well I installed
apollon-0.9.3-3plf.i586.rpm
giftui-0.4.1-1plf.i586.rpm
gift-0.11.6-1plf.i586.rpm
libapollon0-0.9.3-3plf.i586.rpm
gift-fasttrack-0.8.5-1plf.i586.rpm
libgift0-0.11.6-1plf.i586.rpm
gift-openft-0.2.1.1-4plf.i586.rpm
and everything works fine so I tried installing gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2.tar.gz [couldn't find the rpm] and it won't confuger so I tried finding libgift.pc and it's not anywhere on my pc
[ka9qlq@192 Zilla]$ locate libgift
/usr/lib/libgift.so.0
/usr/lib/libgiftproto.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libgift.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libgiftproto.so.0
Now like I said everything works, but no libgifl.pc. What package has libgift anyway? I'd like to get the plug-in in.
Thanks.
Alvin