On 17/11/11 00:27, Matijn Woudt wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I've just finished building LFS 7.0, and thought I start on some BLFS >> packages. I'm trying to build pkg-config (0.26) which requires glib >> (2.30.1), but when I run glib's configure script, It complains that >> pkg-config script could not be found. Has anyone come across this >> dilemma? or am I doing something wrong? >> On a side note, what was the reason to move pkg-config back to BLFS? >> Regards, >> Wayne. > > Hi Wayne, > > The BLFS page for Glib-2.30.1 has a note under Command Explanations: > "PCRE_* and LIBFFI_*: Glib is a prerequsite for pkg_config, but it > wants to use pkg_config during the build process. These environment > variables work around not having pkg_config available." > > Are you sure you took the exact configure line as described in the BLFS book? > > Matijn
Thanks for all the replies. The failure was due to trailing white spaces on the second line of the command instructions. i.e. after the backslash. Regards, Wayne. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
