[OTR-users] Local installation of pidgin-otr

[Jan Kotuc]

Thanks a lot, that helped, but now i face another problem, hopefully the
last one. ./configure for pidgin-otr still doesn't succeed. Instead, it
prints this error message in the end:

~~~~

checking for EXTRA... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0
>= 2.6 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6 pidgin >= 2.0 purple >= 2.0) were not met:

No package 'pidgin' found
No package 'purple' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables EXTRA_CFLAGS
and EXTRA_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

~~~~

That sort of puzzles me, because i'm sure there IS pidgin normally
installed, since i use it every day :)
Is there a workaround available? TIA for any help.

jan

Thomas B wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:31:30PM +0100, Jan Kotuc wrote:
>> Hi people,
>>
>> i struggle with pidgin-otr installation on a school machine, on which i
>> have no root privileges. I installed libotr first, like this:
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/apps/libotr && make && make install
>>
>> It went okay. Then i wanted to install pidgin-otr and used the following
>> command:
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/apps/pidgin-otr
>> --with-libotr-prefix=$HOME/apps/libotr/
>>
>> But it didn't work out. This was the error message:
>>
>> checking for libotr LIBS...  -L/home/xkotuc1/apps/libotr/ -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.
>>
>> No matter which subdir of ~/apps/libotr (i.e. bin, lib, include... ) I
>> provided in the command, it still didn't work. Ideas, anyone? I'd be
>> very thankful...
> 
> `./configure --help` shows another option --with-libotr-inc-prefix.
> Looking into the configure script it seems you have to use both:
> --with-libotr-prefix for the lib dir, --with-libotr-inc-prefix for the
> include dir. Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 
> _______________________________________________
> OTR-users mailing list
> OTR-users at lists.cypherpunks.ca
> http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-users
>