Re: pkg-config lying about libglib2 version when compiling gtkglext. but correct .pc file is there

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@verizon.net>]

On 20:25 Mon 11 Dec     , mitchell phillip Laks wrote:

I solved the problem.

there was a bad .pc file in 
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

from a prior build of glib2.0 that was taking precedence 
over the debian
/usr/lib/pkgconfig directory version of the .pc file
and preventing the configure from working.

Once I removed that file, all worked fine.

apparently the debian build default priority for pkg-config
is 

from 

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pkg-config/2006-May/000108.html


 Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at err.no
Mon May 29 04:41:05 PDT 2006

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Olivier Boudeville skrev:

> it must be a fairly usual question, but I did not find the final word
> through the wiki or the mailing list archive.

Hi, sorry for the late response.  I've been busy.

> It seems that, for a reason I cannot explain, /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> is not always hardcoded in pkg-config search paths, even after having
> upgraded to newer versions (it is ok on Ubuntu [0.19] but not for Gentoo
> [0.20] apparently).

pkg-config doesn't hardcode any paths apart from the ones hardcoded by 
the --with-pc-path switch.  That defaults to 
$libdir/pkgconfig:$datadir/pkgconfig (which is usually 
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig or the same, sans 
local).  

The Debian (and thereby the Ubuntu) packages hardcode it to 
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
/$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE):/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pk gconfig/$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE):/usr/share/pkgconfig


I don't know what gentoo does, but if they pass --prefix=/usr (as I 
suspect they'll do), it'll default to /usr/share/pkgconfig and 
/usr/lib/pkgconfig.

- tfheen

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thanks

Mitchell Laks