One significant problem with PKG_CHECK_MODULES is that it causes failures where it should not. If a user installs libfoo in /p/a/t/h and invokes a configure script with LDFLAGS=-L/p/a/t/h, the user is justified in expecting the configury to find libfoo. But, the user also must set PKG_CONFIG_PATH so that the configure script can find foo.pc in … Read more
See Alexandre Duret Lutz’s Autotools tutorial, a must read. It contains diagrams explaining how the different files of an autotools project interact with each other and by which tool they are used: configure, config.h, config.status, aclocal.m4 etc EDIT: John Calcote also explains the purpose of aclocal and aclocal.m4 in the first chapter of his book … Read more
Passing the following argument to configure script allowed me to build the 32bit library on 64bit Linux ./configure –build=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-m32 CXXFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS=-m32
Try running autoreconf –force –install ./configure make in the root directory of your project. If that doesn’t work, try running make maintainer-clean first and then go to step 1. If that still doesn’t work, run make maintainer-clean, then delete every generated file in the root directory of your project; including aclocal.m4, any m4 directory, any … Read more
I had this same issue and found that pkg-config package was missing. After installing the package, everything generated correctly.