Re: building abiword-1.9.1 on RedHat-9 - can you help?

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 03:22:30 EDT

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    On Thu, 15 May 2003, Hans Christian Andersen wrote:
    > I have problems with fribidi. Aby help is much appreciated.
    > Running ./configure I get the following:
    >
    > .....
    > checking for curl/curl.h... yes
    > checking for curl_global_init in -lcurl... yes
    > checking for fribidi >= 0.10.4... Package fribidi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
    > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fribidi.pc'
    > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    > No package 'fribidi' found
    >
    > fribidi sources can be downloaded from SourceForge
    >
    > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fribidi
    >
    > Note: Don't use the fribidi source which is sometimes
    > included with AbiWord since that version is for
    > Windows only.
    > configure: error: * * * fribidi >= 0.10.4 is required * * *
    > [hca@localhost abi]$ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
    > /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/home/hca/fribidi-0.10.4
    > [hca@localhost abi]$

    I'm puzzled. Exactly what is it you don't understand?

    Frank

    Francis James Franklin
    F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk

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