[gobolinux-users] Problem compiling BMPx (libSoup/PkgConfig related)

[Michael Homer]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Thomas Queste <tqueste at free.fr> wrote:
> > What does `pkgconfig --modversion libsoup` give you? Are you running
>  > Compile under sudo? If you are, try it without.
>
>  pkg-config returns me that It doesn't know about libsoup :
>  gobo at Gobo /System/Links/Libraries/pkgconfig]pkg-config --modversion libsoup
>  Package libsoup was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>  Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsoup.pc'
>  to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>  No package 'libsoup' found
>
>  I don't hava a libsoup.pc but I have the following link in
>  '/System/Links/Libraries/pkgconfig' :
>  libsoup-2.4.pc -> /Programs/LibSoup/2.3.2/lib/pkgconfig/libsoup-2.4.pc
>
>  Should I make a symlink called 'libsoup.pc' to 'libsoup-2.4.pc' ?
>  Should I add it to the Recipe ?
I don't think so - looking at it again, it seems that it wants a 2.2
version of libsoup. You should install one of them, and update the
dependencies to list "LibSoup >= 2.2, < 2.3".
-Michael