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rggjan

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Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 69

[Solved] pkg-config too old

I was just trying to install the isight-firmware-tools (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23525) from the aur with yaourt (yaourt -S isight-firmware-tools), but I get the following error while installing:

...
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking gcrypt.h usability... yes
checking gcrypt.h presence... yes
checking for gcrypt.h... yes
checking for makeinfo... ${SHELL} /tmp/yaourt-tmp-jan/aur-isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools/src/isight-firmware-tools-1.4.1/missing --run makeinfo
checking for pkg-config... no
checking for IFT... 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 IFT_CFLAGS
and IFT_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

To get pkg-config, see <http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>.
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
    Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build isight-firmware-tools package.

Does anyone know what to do? I have a 64-bit system, extra and community enabled.

pkgtools 13-1 from community is installed already...

Last edited by rggjan (2009-09-11 10:11:54)

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: [Solved] pkg-config too old

Is pkg-config installed? If not, install it.

rggjan

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Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 69

Re: [Solved] pkg-config too old

Of course ... not

I somehow thought, this was included in the pkgtools package when a package "pkg-config" didn't exist, but there is a package "pkgconfig" (without "-").

Installing that solved the problem, thanks!

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [Solved] pkg-config too old

pkgconfig is part of the base-devel package group, which provides all packages necessary for creating Arch packages. You should install base-devel before building anything.

rggjan

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Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 69

Re: [Solved] pkg-config too old

Thanks for the tip!