./configure --prefix ??
 

Hi! I am trying to add a prefix to the ./configure line of gtkpod to help it find the libgpod-1.0.pc directory which is located @
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
I can't seem to make it work, probably because I am adding the wrong prefix, or flag?

error message during configure:
checking for PACKAGE_LIBS...
Package libgpod-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgpod-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libgpod-1.0' found
configure: error: ***
`config.log':
configure:4073: $PKG_CONFIG --exists "gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gthread-2.0 >= 0.14.0 glib-2.0 > 2.4.0 libglade-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gmodule-2.0 libgpod-1.0 >= 0.3.0" >/dev/null 2>&1
configure:4076: $? = 1
configure:4086: result:

configure help:
Fine tuning of the installation directories:
--bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
--sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
--libexecdir=DIR program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
--datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data [PREFIX/share]
--sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
--sharedstatedir=DIR modifiable architecture-independent data [PREFIX/com]
--localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
--libdir=DIR object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
--includedir=DIR C header files [PREFIX/include]
--oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
--infodir=DIR info documentation [PREFIX/info]
--mandir=DIR man documentation [PREFIX/man]

Program names:
--program-prefix=PREFIX prepend PREFIX to installed program names
--program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed program names
--program-transform-name=PROGRAM run sed PROGRAM on installed program names

System types:
--build=BUILD configure for building on BUILD [guessed]
--host=HOST cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD]

Optional Features:
--disable-FEATURE do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no)
--enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes]
--enable-maintainer-mode enable make rules and dependencies not useful
(and sometimes confusing) to the casual installer
--disable-dependency-tracking Speeds up one-time builds
--enable-dependency-tracking Do not reject slow dependency extractors

Some influential environment variables:
CC C compiler command
CFLAGS C compiler flags
LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a
nonstandard directory <lib dir>
CPPFLAGS C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir> if you have
headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir>
PKG_CONFIG path to pkg-config utility
PACKAGE_CFLAGS
C compiler flags for PACKAGE, overriding pkg-config
PACKAGE_LIBS
linker flags for PACKAGE, overriding pkg-config
CPP C preprocessor

Have you tried adding /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable as the error message suggests?

Try the following:
assuming you're using bash...

The --prefix option specifies where the software will be located after a make install.
You should either have a --with-lib option, or as the previous post states, update the PKG_CONFIG_PATH path.

Good luck!

thanks! I tried
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH && ./configure
but, I get this message again:
Package libgpod-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgpod-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libgpod-1.0' found

I can see in there! there is no "with" option in the configure help...

--libdir=DIR object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]

The --libdir=DIR options specifies where the program libraries will be installed once compiled.
It seems that the libgpod-1.0 library is not on your system.
The linker searches in /usr/lib and /lib for libraries when linking a program and configure should
complain if it doesn't find the library in there.
Have a look in /usr/lib and maybe /lib - if you don't find the required library there you'll need
to get and install it.

Henry

Try,

As far as I know, you should compile gpod (not install by rpm packet) to any directory (using --prefix). After, you go to this dir and find the .pc (find . -type f -name *.pc). And then, you just copy this file to /usr/lib/pkgconfig (default path for pkg-config search).

I usually do this way when get this error :)

I think its better to add /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig to PKG_CONFIG_PATH so that ./configure looks for the required files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.

I looked in /usr/lib and /lib, no such file there. "libgpod-1.0.pc" still resides in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
Should I just move it elsewhere?

code gives this error:
$export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
-bash: PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig: No such file or directory
--that is weird, this is the exact path!

Caspervn, are you sayin that if I install it to some other directory, I wouldn't get this error?
don't you think it would still look for that other library it complains about?

thanks for all the help!

The correct command was:

CFLAGS="-I$HOME/Applications/libgpod-1.0.pc/include -L$/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure


thank you!