Pkg_config_path

Kiwi UK · 12-18-2004, 12:32 PM

Hi, i'm, very new to Linux and was wondering how you add a directory to PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable. Also, what is the default PKG_CONFIG_VARIABLE, as I accidentally changed it somehow
Thanks for any help you can give
Kiwi UK

SUSE 9.1 Pro / KDE 3.3.2

slakmagik · 12-18-2004, 12:51 PM

Issue
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
at the prompt or in your bash startups. Where it is may vary - just look for some .pc files.

-- Oh, hey - and welcome to LQ!

Kiwi UK · 12-18-2004, 12:59 PM

Thanks digiot
Still have one problem though, when I run ./config, i receive this message:

checking for pkg-config... ok
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gthread-2.0 >= 0.14.0 glib-2.0 > 2.0.0... Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
configure: error: ***
See `config.log' for more details.

Any ideas?

Cerulean · 12-18-2004, 01:24 PM

Did you actually find the location of gtk+-2.0.pc and append the directory it is in to the $PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable?

Code:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/path/to/directory

daihard · 12-18-2004, 01:32 PM

Kiwi UK, did you happend to compile and install KDE 3.3.2 using konstruct? I ran into the exact same problem after I installed KDE 3.3.2 that way. It seems that when PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not defined, the system will first look for the lib directory under the paths defined in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. In my case, ./configure only found /home/daihard/kde3.3.2/lib/pkgconfig as the valid PKG_CONFIG_PATH and therefore gave me that GTK error.

What I did was add the following line in my startkde:

Code:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${KDEDIR}/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

It solved my problem.

HTH,
Dai

Kiwi UK · 12-18-2004, 01:36 PM

Yeah that seems to work somehow, thanks everyone