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sayth
Asked: 2012-01-27 16:00:39 +0800 CST

libnotify, PKG_CONFIG_PATH

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I am installing spidermonkey on Ubuntu 11.10. When running ./configure I receive a dependency error that libnotify >= 0.4 is not met.

Located the package in Ubuntu as

gir1.2-notify-0.7

So then I found out where it was installed.

renshaw@renshaw-TravelMate-5740G:~/spidermonkey$ dpkg -L gir1.2-notify-0.7
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/gir1.2-notify-0.7
/usr/share/doc/gir1.2-notify-0.7/copyright
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Notify-0.7.typelib
/usr/share/doc/gir1.2-notify-0.7/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gir1.2-notify-0.7/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/gir1.2-notify-0.7/changelog.Debian.gz

So then I have attempted to add this to PKG_CONFIG_PATH with

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/:/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Notify-0.7.typelib

However I still receive the error.

configure: error: Library requirements (libnotify >= 0.4) not met;

How can I get ./configure to see libnotify as gir1.2-notify-0.7?

libnotify

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You need to install the *-dev packages if you need to compile something using that library.

    In your case you need libnotify-dev. Install it (sudo apt install libnotify-dev) and run ./configure again.

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