Re: pkg-config not returning correct version number - help please
Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>:
> Chris Fisichella writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did something to cause pkg-config to not return the correct
>> version number. I issue:
>>
>> $ pkg-config --exists --print-errors 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91'
>> Requested 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' but version of Fontconfig is 2.10.2
>>
>> This is after I (believe I) successfully installed from sources
>> fontconfig-2.10.91 .
>>
>> When I look in the directories where pkg-config is supposed to look, I find
>> /usr/lib/pkgconfig$ cat fontconfig.pc
>> prefix=/usr
>> exec_prefix=${prefix}
>> libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
>> includedir=${prefix}/include
>> sysconfdir=/etc
>> localstatedir=${prefix}/var
>> PACKAGE=fontconfig
>> confdir=${sysconfdir}/fonts
>> cachedir=${localstatedir}/cache/${PACKAGE}
>>
>> Name: Fontconfig
>> Description: Font configuration and customization library
>> Version: 2.10.91
>> Libs: -L${libdir} -lfontconfig
>> Libs.private: -lexpat -lfreetype
>> Cflags: -I${includedir}
>>
>> Version 2.10.2 is a tar ball I installed earlier. As it turns out, I
>> need 2.10.91, so I installed that tar ball.
>>
>> If 2.10.91 is in this file, should pkg-config return that? Is there
>> a way to get pkg-config in-sync with what is in the
>> /usr/lib/pkgconfig directory? I tried rebooting, but that did not
>> help.
>
> Searches are done at execution time, there is nothing to be
> synchronized. You can track where pkg-config is looking for the .pc
> files by executing
>
> $ strace -e trace=open pkg-config --exists --print-errors 'fontconfig
> >= 2.10.91'
>
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> Alberto
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>
Totally cool solution, Alberto. Thanks very much!
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