LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] dconf fails to configure: requires dconf

(EDIT: Dconf not Gconf, d'oh!)

So I need the dconf package as a dependency for something else. Nothing new there. :)

Using version 8 of the book (stable). Got the version of dconf linked by the book. Have all required and recommended dependencies in already.

Problem (on ./configure phase):

Code:

root@artemis:dconf-editor-3.22.3 # ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether make supports nested variables... yes

checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking for suffix of executables...

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed

checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking for valac... /usr/bin/valac

checking whether /usr/bin/valac is at least version 0.33.1... yes

checking for glib-compile-resources... /usr/bin/glib-compile-resources

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes

checking for appstream-util... no

checking for DCONF_EDITOR... no

configure: error: Package requirements (

  glib-2.0 >= 2.46.0

  gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.0

  dconf >= 0.25.1

  gmodule-2.0

) were not met:



No package 'dconf' found



Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you

installed software in a non-standard prefix.



Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DCONF_EDITOR_CFLAGS

and DCONF_EDITOR_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.

See the pkg-config man page for more details.

root@artemis:dconf-editor-3.22.3 #

If I understand that correctly, dconf fails to compile because of a needed dependency ... of itself.

Can anyone clarify this, please?