Re: [Conky-users] Trouble installing conky-1.4.6

[Brenden M. <br...@rt...>]

It seems like you have some really strange environment stuff going on. 
What shell are you using?  The configure script executes using sh, so
perhaps try running it with your shell, ie:

bash configure --prefix=blah

Regards,

Brenden

On Tue, August 28, 2007 1:30 pm, Vivek Narayanan wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am a relative noob and am trying to install conky-1.4.6 on my red
> hat linux box. I also dont have access to root.
>
> When I do ./configure --prefix=/home/<usrname>
>
>
> checking for GLIB... configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be
> found or is too old.  Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG
> environment variable to the full path to pkg-config.
>
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GLIB_CFLAGS
> and GLIB_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man
> page for more details.
>
> I tried to see if pkg-config was available in my path and it is
>
>
> <hostname>:/home/<usrname>/conky-1.4.5: which pkg-config
> /tool/pandora/bin/pkg-config
>
>
> I also downloaded the latest pkg-config locally and added that path
> to my PATH variable.
>
> Both these didn't work. Then I set the GLIB_CFLAGS and GLIB_LIBS
> variables manually in csh as the output of
>
> pkg-config --cflags glib pkg-config --libs glib
>
> when set the variable and echo them they are as follows echo $GLIB_CFLAGS
> -I/tool/pandora/.package/glib-1.2.10/include/glib-1.2 -I/tool/
> pandora/.package/glib-1.2.10/lib/glib/include
>
> echo $GLIB_LIBS -L/tool/pandora/.package/glib-1.2.10/lib -lglib
>
>
> and STILL I see the same error message.
>
> Can someone please help. I successfully installed torsmo and didn't
> have these problems there..
>
> Thanks,
> -vivek
>
>
>
>
>
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