[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouisutdml on Fedora

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:12:07 -0500

Have you tried setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH ? That has always worked for me, 
though the actual value can be tricky. It's certainly easier that 
setting those environment variables.

John

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 08:43:06AM -0400, Brandon Roller wrote:
> I don't think setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH is appropriate.  The output of
> configure shows that pkg-config is found.  The output contains the
> following lines:
> "checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0...yes
> checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... no"  It also states that I may need to
> set environment variables BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS an
> BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS.  Does setting those do anything?  What should they
> point towards?
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:42 AM, John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> 
> > This is the error that keeps bugging Mac users also. On Linux it is
> > possible that pkg-config is not installed. If it is, You need to set
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH . If you used the defaults for liblouis try
> >
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> >
> > Check to make sure that liblouis.pc is in this location. I'm not sure
> > about libxml2 . It is usually installed by default on Linux.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:00:38PM -0400, Brandon Roller wrote:
> > > I am trying to set up liblouisutdml on a laptop running Fedora 20.  I get
> > > the following message when running configure:
> > > configure: error: Package requirements (liblouis >= 2.5.1, libxml-2.0)
> > were
> > > not met:
> > > No package 'liblouis' found
> > > No package 'libxml-2.0' found
> > >
> > > Any idea what I is wrong?  I know both liblouis and libxm2 are installed.
> >
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities

For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com

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