Hi everybody

I'm trying to compile the last version of Gimp (2.8.14), but i'm having some issues.

It doesn't recognize the installed libgegl-2.0 on the system, so i tried to compile gegl-2.0 from the source code, but it gives me other problems.

I noticed then that pkg-config is not finding many installed libraries, and when i tried searching for the .pc files on my system, i just found 5 of them, most are missing.

I already trying re-installing pkg-config, but it doesn't solve the problem.

So, any ideas of how can i rebuild them?

Welcome to LQ.

Gegl : $ sudo apt-get install libgegl-dev

Gimp : $ sudo apt-get install gimp
..... which will provide version 2.8.10 (Ubuntu 14.04).


A manual install of gegl :
If you did $ cd gegl*/ && ./configure
... the file gegl-0.2.pc is hidden in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

The gimp 'configure' will look in the PKG_CONFIG_PATH for the file.
Solution : You can either copy the file to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/,
or do this : $ cd gimp-2.8.14/
$ export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ && ./configure


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But i already did search for the .pc files in those folders, i searched for hidden files as well.

There are only 5 .pc files in the whole system, and there's no .pc file for libgegl, and there is no development package for libgegl, only debug symbols package

? Which Ubuntu version are you using ? ?
a) $ uname -a
b) $ cat /etc/issue

The most package config files.pc are in :
/usr/lib/<arch>-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/,
.. like /usr/lib/<arch>-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gegl-0.2.pc

? Did you install libgegl-dev : $ sudo apt-get install libgegl-dev
( If you have Ubuntu 12.04 : No libgegl-dev, version 0.2.0 ).


The file gegl-0.2.pc is a small text file, 309B.
You can use the attached copy :
$ sudo cp gegl-0.2.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
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