[ghemical-devel] Issues with outdated aclocal and pkg-config

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

trying to build libghemical with openbabel, I ran into the following
issue:

checking for OPENBABEL_CFLAGS...
checking for OPENBABEL_LIBS...
configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too
old.  Make sure it
is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
path to pkg-config.

Alternatively you may set the OPENBABEL_CFLAGS and OPENBABEL_LIBS
environment variables
to avoid the need to call pkg-config.  See the pkg-config man page for
more details.

To get pkg-config, see <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig>.
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [config.status] Error 1


I was able to solve this by first running aclocal-1.8 and then
autoconf2.50, seems the PKG_CONFIG m4 macros are out of date with the
latest pkg-config (0.19).


cheers,

Michael

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