./configure question

Sjonnie48 · 06-04-2007, 03:02 PM

Hi,

For my xmms I want to install a shn plugin.
I have a stable package to compile, but the configure script reports an error:

*** The xmms-config script installed by XMMS could not be found.
*** If XMMS was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the XMMS_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to xmms-config.
configure: error: *** XMMS >= 1.0.0 not installed - please install first ***

So I searched the configure script and found a line: XMMS_CONFIG
I edited this line: XMMS_CONFIG=/usr
It did not work.
What did I do wrong?

Kind regards

Nylex · 06-04-2007, 03:37 PM

It says to set XMMS_CONFIG to the full path to xmms-config. For example, if xmms-config is in /usr/bin, you'd set XMMS_CONFIG to /usr/bin.

Sjonnie48 · 06-04-2007, 04:11 PM

There is one disadvantage: there is no xmms-config file anywhere on my pc.
I have the following: /home/******/.xmms/config. I copied this file to a new file xmms-config.
But the configure script chokes on that file, after I edited the appropriate line to this value.
So it now looks like this: XMMS_CONFIG=/home/******/.xmms/xmms-config.
The only reason I can think of is that I made a sytax error.

AdaHacker · 06-04-2007, 04:40 PM

The xmms-config program is used to pass the compiler information about the installed version of XMMS, e.g. where the header files and static libraries are located. The reason you don't have it is most likely that you don't have those header files in the first place. Install the xmms-dev package and then try building the plugin again. Just undo that last edit you posted first.

Sjonnie48 · 06-04-2007, 10:08 PM

Thanks for your advice. I got it working.