[OTR-users] Problem finding libotr

[Michael Goerz]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 October 2008 04:50:34 am Michael Goerz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have some trouble installing the OTR plugin on linux. Before trying
>> to compile
>> pidgin-otr-3.2.0 from source, I manually installed (from source)
>> libotr-3.2.0 with its prerequisites libgcrypt-1.2.4 and
>> libgpg-error-1.6, all with '--prefix=$HOME' (I don't have root access
>> on the machine I'm installing this).
>>
>> Now, when I do ./configure for pidgin-otr-3.2.0, it ends with the
>> following messages:
>>
>> [...]
>> checking for libotr CFLAGS...
>> checking for libotr LIBS...  -lotr
>> checking for libotr headers version 3.x >= 3.2.0... not present.
>> checking for otrl_message_receiving in -lotr... yes
>> configure: error: libotr 3.2.0 or newer is required
>>
>> How can I convince configure to find the libotr library in my home folder?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael Goerz
>
> Check ./configure --help, but probably ./configure --with-otr-lib=/path/to/lib
> or such.
Yeah, I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. When installing the
prerequisite libraries, they ended up in /home/goerz/lib/. So for pidgin-otr,
I tried ./configure --prefix=/home/goerz  --with-libotr-prefix=/home/goerz/lib
--with-libotr-inc-prefix=/home/goerz/src/libotr-3.2.0/src, and a number of
other combinations, but none of them worked. What would you put in for
--with-libotr-prefix and --with-libotr-inc-prefix?

> Regards,
> Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>

Thanks,
Michael Goerz