On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:47:22 -0600
"Josh Lawrence" <hardbop200@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm getting really, really frustrated and need some help. I've been
> trying for the past week to install software that depends on pkgconfig
> to find libraries. My most recent outing was to install dssi so I
> could try out hexter. I install dssi by doing apt-get install etc.
> Now I'm trying to compile hexter (there's no package for that), and it
> complains that pkgconfig doesn't know about dssi, so I need to adjust
> my pkg_config_path variable.
>
> Now my understanding is that, in order for pkgconfig to "know" about a
> library, there has to be a .pc file that contains metadata for it.
> Alas, there is no dssi.pc on my system. Am I stuck?
Off the top of my head... did you also get any 'dev' packages? They
contain the headers and the .pc file that points to them.
-- Will J GReceived on Sat Feb 17 20:15:02 2007
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