[Geany-Devel] Can't build geany-plugins

[Quentin Glidic]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 01:24:33PM +0100, Harold Aling wrote:
> After dist-upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10, updating to the latest Geany and
> Geany-plugins doesn't seem to work:
> 
> $ geany -V
> geany 1.23 (git >= d019741) (built on Dec  4 2012 with GTK 2.24.13, GLib 2.34.0)
> 
> $ ./waf configure && ./waf build
> Setting top to                           : /home/harold/src/geany-plugins
> Setting out to                           :
> /home/harold/src/geany-plugins/_build_
> Checking for waf version in 1.6.1-1.7.0  : ok
> Checking for 'gcc' (c compiler)          : ok
> Checking for program pkg-config          : /usr/bin/pkg-config
> Checking for 'gtk+-2.0' >= 2.16.0        : yes
> Checking for 'geany' >= 1.23             : not found
> The configuration failed
> (complete log in /home/harold/src/geany-plugins/_build_/config.log)
> 
> $ cat /home/harold/src/geany-plugins/_build_/config.log
> ...
> Checking for 'geany' >= 1.23
> ['/usr/bin/pkg-config', '--atleast-version=1.23', 'geany']
> not found
> from /home/harold/src/geany-plugins: The configuration failed
> 
> 
> Geany is prefixed with /usr/local, just like -plugins defaults to.
> 
> Is this an Ubuntu error, user error, or is something wrong in the
> configure waf script of geany-plugins?

pkg-config will not search in /usr/local by default. Try setting
PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

Cheers,

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Quentin “Sardem FF7” Glidic