simple pkgconfig question

txm123 · 12-06-2007, 04:21 AM

Hi,

I'm trying to compile rtorrent but config gives this error

Code:

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libcurl' found

I have installed libcurl and libcurl.pc is located in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.

How can I add this location to the script. There is something about PKG_CONFIG_PATH but I really don't know what to do.

Thanks

reddazz · 12-06-2007, 04:30 AM

You could install libcurl to /usr by running ./configure with the --prefix=/usr flag. An alternative would be to do

Code:

#ln -s /usr/local/lib/libcurl* /usr/lib/.

There are other methods, but give those a shot and see if they help resolve your problem.

nx5000 · 12-06-2007, 05:30 AM

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure

txm123 · 12-06-2007, 10:37 AM

Thank you nadazz and nx5000.

I tried nx5000's solution since it was easier to do. It didn't work in the beginning since configure script complained about unidentified variable URL. I then commented out the URL section in the libcurl.pc and configure worked. Thank you guys so much