Re: Trying to build on Mint 20 ... [[email protected]]

Thanks to Pawel for pointing out what I should have seen.  You did have  
the library itself, but not the files which tell configure where to  
find it.

On 2021.10.05 16:47, Mike Witt via balsa-list wrote:
> It looks like that was it. I must have been missing that library. Now  
> it configures and builds.
> Thank you so much for all your help!
> -Mike
> 
> On 10/05/2021 02:04:35 PM, Pawel Salek wrote:
>> libenchant-2.so.2.2.15 or similar is just the shared library that  
>> can be
>> used to execute balsa but insufficient to compile. enchant.pc is  
>> typically
>> a part of a 'dev' package containing configuration, header files, and
>> sometimes some configuration. The dev package is called  
>> libenchant-2-dev on
>> Ubuntu.
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:24 AM Mike Witt via balsa-list <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> > On 10/04/2021 04:41:44 PM, Jack via balsa-list wrote:
>> > > On 2021.10.04 18:29, Mike Witt via balsa-list wrote:
>> > >>> Those look OK to me.  Can you post part of config.log?
>> > >>
>> > >> I'm so sorry. I didn't really know about config.log. I'm really  
>> not
>> > >> used to doing this. There are some very obvious errors in  
>> there, for
>> > >> example:
>> > > When things go well, config.log becomes irrelevant.  It helps  
>> when
>> > > things do not go well, as now.  Also, "obvious" is a very  
>> relative
>> > > term.  Once you have much more experience tracking down problems  
>> like
>> > > this, you will recognize that those particular errors are really  
>> not
>> > > important at all (more below.)
>> > >>
>> > >> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
>> > >> gcc: fatal error: no input files
>> > >> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did  
>> you
>> > >> mean '--version'?
>> > >> gcc: fatal error: no input files
>> > >> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
>> > >> gcc: fatal error: no input files
>> > >> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did  
>> you
>> > >> mean '--version'?
>> > >> gcc: fatal error: no input files
>> > >>
>> > >> Do you want me to post the whole log?
>> >
>> > > It should not be necessary, but don't try to extract single  
>> lines.
>> > > Post the contiguous set of the last twenty or so lines before:
>> > >
>> > > ## ---------------- ##
>> > > ## Cache variables. ##
>> > > ## ---------------- ##
>> >
>> > Sorry, I thought I did that. Here they are. It seems to be looking  
>> for
>> > "enchant.pc" -- as far as I can tell, I don't have that (or I don't
>> > know where to look for it).
>> >
>> > configure:14357: $? = 1
>> > configure:14371: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors " enchant !=  
>> 1.6.1
>> > "
>> > Package enchant was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `enchant.pc'
>> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> > No package 'enchant' found
>> > configure:14374: $? = 1
>> > configure:14388: result: no
>> > No package 'enchant' found
>> > configure:14404: error: Package requirements ( enchant != 1.6.1 )  
>> were
>> > not met:
>> >
>> > No package 'enchant' found
>> >
>> > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>> > installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>> >
>> > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables SPELL_CFLAGS
>> > and SPELL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>> > See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>> >
>> > ## ---------------- ##
>> > ## Cache variables. ##
>> > ## ---------------- ##
>> >
>> > ac_cv_build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> > ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu=yes
>> > ac_cv_env_AUTOCRYPT_CFLAGS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_AUTOCRYPT_CFLAGS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_AUTOCRYPT_LIBS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_AUTOCRYPT_LIBS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_BALSA_AB_CFLAGS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_BALSA_AB_CFLAGS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_BALSA_AB_LIBS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_BALSA_AB_LIBS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_BALSA_CFLAGS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_BALSA_CFLAGS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_BALSA_LIBS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_BALSA_LIBS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_CANBERRA_CFLAGS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_CANBERRA_CFLAGS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_CANBERRA_LIBS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_CANBERRA_LIBS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_CC_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_CC_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_GCR_CFLAGS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_GCR_CFLAGS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_GCR_LIBS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_GCR_LIBS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_GPGME_CFLAGS_set=
>> > ac_cv_env_GPGME_CFLAGS_value=
>> > ac_cv_env_GPGME_LIBS_set=
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