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DesiLinguist · 02-25-2009, 12:10 PM

OK, so I took Eric's suggestion for setting up the toolchain myself and everything (starting up the virtual machine, setting the target to 'iliad-dev' etc.) went absolutely fine until I tried compiling ipdf. During the 'configure' pass, I get the following error:

Code:

checking for fontconfig >= 2.2... Package fontconfig was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontconfig.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

However, I looked in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig (which is the default value of PKG_CONFIG_PATH) and there *is* a fontconfig.pc there. What's more surprising is that pkg-config *does* seem aware of fontconfig. If I manually run all the tests that 'configure' seems to be running:

Code:

$> pkg-config --exists "fontconfig >= 2.2"
$> echo $?
0
$> pkg-config --libs "fontconfig >= 2.2"
-L/usr/local/lib -lfontconfig
$> pkg-config --cflags "fontconfig >= 2.2"
-I/usr/local/include

you can see that everything checks out fine. So, I would really appreciate any help or advice here since I am stumped and don't know what to do.

02-25-2009, 12:10 PM	#70
DesiLinguist Computational Linguist Posts: 110 Karma: 100 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: iLiad BE, iPhone, Kindle DX	fontconfig issues when compiling ipdf OK, so I took Eric's suggestion for setting up the toolchain myself and everything (starting up the virtual machine, setting the target to 'iliad-dev' etc.) went absolutely fine until I tried compiling ipdf. During the 'configure' pass, I get the following error: Code: checking for fontconfig >= 2.2... Package fontconfig was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontconfig.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable However, I looked in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig (which is the default value of PKG_CONFIG_PATH) and there is a fontconfig.pc there. What's more surprising is that pkg-config does seem aware of fontconfig. If I manually run all the tests that 'configure' seems to be running: Code: $> pkg-config --exists "fontconfig >= 2.2" $> echo $? 0 $> pkg-config --libs "fontconfig >= 2.2" -L/usr/local/lib -lfontconfig $> pkg-config --cflags "fontconfig >= 2.2" -I/usr/local/include you can see that everything checks out fine. So, I would really appreciate any help or advice here since I am stumped and don't know what to do. Last edited by DesiLinguist; 02-25-2009 at 12:15 PM.