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[Paul Schwartz]

Thanks! You made me a fisherman. ./configure has now completed. The cmake
instructions talked about optional switches like python. I didn't see
anything like that mentioned in the output from configure. have I missed
something?

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 11:57 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op maandag 3 september 2018 22:41:50 CEST schreef Paul Schwartz:
> > Thanks for the suggestion. I have been working through ./configure adding
> > new packages as it complains [including -dev ones]. I have now hit this
> >
> > checking for webkit-1.0 >= "1.2"... no
> > Package webkit-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps
> you
> > should add the directory containing `webkit-1.0.pc' to the
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> > environment variable No package 'webkit-1.0' found
> > configure: error: Library requirements (webkit-1.0 >= "1.2") not met;
> > consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your
> > libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> >
> > There is a libwebkitgtk-1.0 installed in my system. My package manager
> > doesn't show webkit-1.0 and a web search didn't show anything promising.
> > Looking for more help.
> >
> As with the previous ones the problem is that while libwebkitgtk-1.0 is
> installed the corresponding -dev package is not. For building you also
> need
> the -dev package. Unfortunately Ubuntu (and probably debian as well) uses
> a
> naming scheme for the -dev package that's not simply
> <original-package>-dev.
>
> As Ubuntu is not my primary system I don't know the proper commands on
> that OS
> to figure it out directly.
>
> So what I do instead is go to https://packages.ubuntu.com/ and use that
> site
> to find which package provides the missing *.pc file the build system
> complains about ("webkit-1.0.pc), and then install the missing package.
> This
> has worked for my answer to you previous questions. I'll make it an
> exercise
> for the reader to try it for the currently missing package :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
>
>