ATK fails to configure

[engel.martin@…]

When trying to install atk it fails due to an error which might be caused by the configure script. The System is Mac OS X 10.5.3

checking for aclocal flags... 
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.5.7... no
*** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found.
*** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... ./configure: line 20539: no: command not found
no
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found.
*** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
configure: error:
*** GLIB 2.0.0 or better is required. The latest version of
*** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is installed
*** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the file
*** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Is the pkgconfig port installed? It should have been installed as a dependency.

[engel.martin@…]

Yes the newest version of pkgconfig is installed.

[engel.martin@…]

glib2 is also installed. Of course I would be more than happy to provide further details to solve this issue.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The config.log should tell us more; please attach it.

[engel.martin@…]

contrary to the statement in config.log pkgconfig is installed.

port list installed | grep pkgconfig
pkgconfig                      @0.23           devel/pkgconfig

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Just FYI, port list installed doesn't do what you want there, port installed does. But it doesn't really make any difference in this case.

A though occurs: what happens if you run port clean atk and then try installing it again?

[engel.martin@…]

same error :( when cleaning and installing again.

(btw thanks for the port installed hint)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Does your pkg-config work? Try:

/opt/local/bin/pkg-config --libs glib-2.0

It should say something like:

-L/opt/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv  

Do you have anything in /usr/local or /sw? These can interfere with MacPorts and their presence while using MacPorts is not recommended.

[engel.martin@…]

I am sorry, but I really needed atk - so I did a reinstallation of the whole Mac OS. Luckily the error did not reappear but of course this way I am not able to further check your advise.

Anyway thanks for your support.

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