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Title: Help needed, configure error
Post by: lengfeih on November 23, 2016, 05:32:57 pm
Hi, I am trying to install CB 16.01 from source code. I got the following error message when running ./configure.

checking for pkg-config... yes
./configure: line 20412: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found
You don't have pkg.m4 properly installed

I compile and installed the automake myself. The linux system is pretty old (Red hat Enterprise release 5.0). I don't have the root authority so I need to compile and install everything myself.

$ aclocal --print-ac-dir
/home/coldfire/Tool/share/aclocal
$ ls /home/coldfire/Tool/share/aclocal
argz.m4  libtool.m4  ltdl.m4  lt~obsolete.m4  ltoptions.m4  ltsugar.m4   ltversion.m4  pkg.m4  README  wxwin.m4

Any help will be great.
Thanks
coldfire
Title: Re: Help needed, configure error
Post by: lengfeih on November 23, 2016, 06:08:20 pm
So far, I installed the following package

1. WxWidgets 3.0.2
2. autoconf-2.68
3. automake-1.13
4. pkg-config-0.25
5. libtool-2.2
Title: Re: Help needed, configure error
Post by: jawi on December 29, 2016, 03:00:30 pm
try to run

autoreconf -vfi

in the source directory and than

./configure again.

Jan
Title: Re: Help needed, configure error
Post by: ouch on December 29, 2016, 09:36:36 pm
Your version of pkg-config is pretty old (6 years according to: https://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/releases/ )

Maybe updating it will help?
Title: Re: Help needed, configure error
Post by: oBFusCATed on December 29, 2016, 10:10:44 pm
Why don't you try to install the el5 packages from here http://codeblocks.org/downloads/26 ?
rpm supports installing packages in different prefixes than the default, so this might work for you.
Title: Re: Help needed, configure error
Post by: Jenna on December 29, 2016, 11:06:59 pm
Quote from: oBFusCATed on December 29, 2016, 10:10:44 pm
Why don't you try to install the el5 packages from here http://codeblocks.org/downloads/26 ?
rpm supports installing packages in different prefixes than the default, so this might work for you.
I just tried it, and it does not work, because it's not relocatable.
Title: Re: Help needed, configure error
Post by: tigerbeard on December 19, 2023, 11:07:46 am
Quote from: jawi on December 29, 2016, 03:00:30 pm
autoreconf -vfi
./configure again.
I know its an old topic, but I also had a configure problem (not found src/include/Makefile.in") and make clean and update did not help. But running "autorecong -vfi" did the trick, then configure worked find.

Thanks!