Installing libgig

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gramdion
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Installing libgig

Post by gramdion » Sun May 16, 2010 9:16 am

Hi

I tried to install the libgig but the configure process fails with following
message:"checking for SNDFILE... checking for AUDIOFILE... No audio file library
found! Sorry, you need either libsndfile or libaudiofile to compile libgig. This
is needed for the gigextract utility to write audio files."

I think configure-script looks in the wrong places for those libraries as I have
both of them installed. Here are file listings of those libraries:

-- files of libsndfile 1.0.21-1 --
libsndfile /usr/
libsndfile /usr/bin/
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-cmp
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-concat
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-convert
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-deinterleave
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-info
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-interleave
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-metadata-get
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-metadata-set
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-play
libsndfile /usr/bin/sndfile-regtest
libsndfile /usr/include/
libsndfile /usr/include/sndfile.h
libsndfile /usr/include/sndfile.hh
libsndfile /usr/lib/
libsndfile /usr/lib/libsndfile.a
libsndfile /usr/lib/libsndfile.so
libsndfile /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1
libsndfile /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.21
libsndfile /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
libsndfile /usr/lib/pkgconfig/sndfile.pc
libsndfile /usr/share/
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/FAQ.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/api.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/bugs.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/command.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/dither.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/embedded_files.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/index.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/libsndfile.css
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/libsndfile.jpg
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/lists.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/new_file_type.HOWTO
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/octave.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/pkgconfig.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/sndfile_info.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/tutorial.html
libsndfile /usr/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html/win32.html
libsndfile /usr/share/man/
libsndfile /usr/share/man/man1/
libsndfile /usr/share/man/man1/sndfile-cmp.1.gz
libsndfile /usr/share/man/man1/sndfile-concat.1.gz
libsndfile /usr/share/man/man1/sndfile-convert.1.gz
libsndfile /usr/share/man/man1/sndfile-info.1.gz
libsndfile /usr/share/man/man1/sndfile-metadata-get.1.gz
libsndfile /usr/share/man/man1/sndfile-metadata-set.1.gz
libsndfile /usr/share/man/man1/sndfile-play.1.gz
-- end of files of libsndfile 1.0.21-1 --

-- files of audiofile 0.2.7-1 --
audiofile /usr/
audiofile /usr/bin/
audiofile /usr/bin/audiofile-config
audiofile /usr/bin/sfconvert
audiofile /usr/bin/sfinfo
audiofile /usr/include/
audiofile /usr/include/af_vfs.h
audiofile /usr/include/audiofile.h
audiofile /usr/include/aupvlist.h
audiofile /usr/lib/
audiofile /usr/lib/libaudiofile.a
audiofile /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so
audiofile /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0
audiofile /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0.0.2
audiofile /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
audiofile /usr/lib/pkgconfig/audiofile.pc
audiofile /usr/share/
audiofile /usr/share/aclocal/
audiofile /usr/share/aclocal/audiofile.m4
-- end of files of audiofile 0.2.7-1 --

I have arch linux. Libgig is version 3.3.0. Should the configure-script be changed somehow or am I
doing something wrong?

gramdion
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Re: Installing libgig

Post by gramdion » Sun May 16, 2010 11:37 am

Solved.

I didn't have pkgconfig installed.

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