Ben Hopkins wrote: > I downloaded audacity-src-1.3.7 and did ./configure. After several false > starts (installing wxWidgets, and libsndfile, putting $PKG_CONFIG_PATH into > the environment, for example) I hit a brick wall. > > The error is "Audacity requires expat to be enabled". > > expat is installed, libxpat.so-type libs are in the regular places (/usr/lib, > /usr/lib/amd). I compiled some C programs using -lxpat and they compiled, > linked and ran with no problems. > > I've ransacked the web, brought google to its knees, frantically looking in > every nook & cranny because I've never (hardly ever) ran into a problem that > nobody else has had. > > But this time, I'm stumped. Anybody get audacity installed on solaris 10? > Probably audacity is looking for an expat.pc file in PKG_CONFIG_PATH dirs. The SUNWlexpt package installs libexpat in /usr/sfw on S10 and it doesn't install a .pc file. Look in configure script, search for the error message and see what it was looking for.
A solution may be to set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS with appropriate directories and then call configure HTH Hemantha
