[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Problem building liblouistdml2.3.0

  • From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:14:43 +0800

Thanks for that. I did as you suggested and it did not find liblouis which 
would suggest that the liblouis build is not working right. 

All of this could be avoided if I could get build an installer. 

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Greg Kearney
Association for the Blind of Western Australia

On 24/11/2012, at 8:57 AM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am not certain why liblouisutdml is not building for you, personally I find 
> the make stuff complicated and hard to work with and I am a software 
> developer.
> 
> One thing I did notice, your line for checking the packages would not find 
> liblouis, grep xml will find lines containing xml, so liblouis would not show 
> up. You would need to change grep xml to grep louis to search for liblouis.
> 
> What does
> pkg-config --list-all | grep louis
> give? If that says liblouis is installed then it seems as if the 
> liblouisutdml build stuff is broken.
> 
> Michael Whapples
> On 23/11/2012 23:15, Greg Kearney wrote:
>> OK for some reason even after doing a new compile and install pkconfig will 
>> not find the libouis materials here is what I get:
>> 
>> pkg-config --list-all | grep xml
>> libxml-2.0   libXML - libXML library version2.
>> 
>> I have always been concerned about the complexity of getting all of this 
>> working. I'm a librarian not a computer programer and while I have better 
>> than average skills for my trade I know that many potential users would 
>> never be able to handle this. It's driving me crazy!
>> 
>> So here is my offer. If someone will send me all the files in the correct 
>> folder structure for an intel Mac I will build a proper installer that will 
>> permit mear mortals to install and be able to use liblouis. I know that 
>> BrailleBaster holds out a future hot for this but we have people who really 
>> just need this now. 
>> 
>> Here is the steps I have followed so far with no results. 
>> 
>> 1. made sure I had pkg-config install and running. I do the following:
>> set PKGCONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
>> export PKGCONFIG_PATH
>> 
>> pkg-config --list-all | grep xml
>> libxml-2.0   libXML - libXML library version2.
>> 
>> Note that it says I have libxml-2.0
>> 
>> 2. downloaded the current versions of liblouis , liblouis-2.5.1 and 
>> liblouisutdml, liblouisutdml-2.3.0
>> 
>> 3. configure make and make install liblouis. Everything went fine.
>> 
>> Again I run:
>> 
>> pkg-config --list-all | grep xml
>> libxml-2.0   libXML - libXML library version2.
>> 
>> Note I still do not have the liblouis package. Why is that? So I go on
>> 
>> 4. configure liblouisutdml-2.3.0 I get the following:
>> 
>> 
>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>> checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... configure: error: Package requirements 
>> (liblouis, libxml-2.0) were not met:
>> 
>> No package 'liblouis' 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 BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS
>> and BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>> 
>> 
>> The fact of the matter is I am willing to build a proper macOS installer 
>> that will put everything it it place that will permit people to install and 
>> test liblouis and use it but I need to have all the files compiled and ready 
>> to install sent to me. There is only so many hours int eh day and this is 
>> just           driving me crazy every time I have to go through all this. I 
>> need to produce Braille here.
>> 
>> Can anyone help me?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
>> Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
>> PO Box 101, Victoria Park WA 6979 | 61 Kitchener Ave, Victoria Park WA 6100
>> Tel: 08 9311 8246 | Fax: 08 9361 8696 | www.guidedogswa.com.au
>> Tel: 307-224-4022 (North America)
>> Email: greg.kearney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
>> 
>> On 23/11/2012, at 6:43 PM, "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> exprot PKGCONFIG_PATH
> 

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