On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:01:32PM +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote: > As a test of the new jhalfs/BLFS tools, I have tried > to compile 'accountservice' (the first package in the > book). The tool generated the following build order: > dbus libffi python2 pcre glib2 dbus-glib perl-xml-parser > intltool pkgconfig polkit accountsservice. > > Knowing that libxml2 and expat were already installed, > you can check that it accounts for all required and > recommended dependencies. > > Everything builds OK until dbus-glib, where configure stops > with: > [...] > checking for XML_ParserCreate_MM in -lexpat... yes > checking expat.h usability... yes > checking expat.h presence... yes > checking for expat.h... yes > checking for pkg-config... no > checking for DBUS... no > configure: error: in `/sources/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-0.98': > configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too > old. Make sure it > is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full > path to pkg-config. > Why would you build accountsservice if you weren't building gnome ? In reality, trying to build gnome without xorg is a fool's errand, and I'm reasonably sure that xorg needs pkg-config. Similarly, gobject-introspection doesn't make sense unless you are going to build gnome.
But, I take your point that pkg-config ought to be listed in *this* case. I thought we'd closed most of the alternative "weird and wonderful" paths through the book where people think they can build things without pkg-config, but I'm sure that there are still others. So, thanks for finding this. I'll fix this up somewhen, unless somebody else beats me to it. I don't see the patch, and in all honesty we don't need one for such a straightforward change. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
