[clam-devel] Newb Linux compile questions.

edgley at mnsi.net edgley at mnsi.net
Mon Oct 18 12:37:31 PDT 2010


----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Natanael Olaiz <nolaiz at gmail.com>
To: clam-devel at lists.clam-project.org
Subject: Re: [clam-devel] Newb Linux compile questions.
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:15:22 +0200

>Hi,
>
>El 10/17/2010 06:55 PM, Frank Edgley escribió:
>>  Hey there,
>>    I'm trying to compile CLAM on Lucid (for Linux).   I'm
>> following  the INSTALL file instructions but after
>> checking out the code from  subversion and installing the
>> dependencies, I'm getting the following  error when I try
>>to do a 'scons configure': 
>> <quote>
>> #########################################
>> ### CLAM CORE DEPENDENCIES CHECKING   ###
>> #########################################
>> Checking for xerces-c pkg-config file... no
>> Error: pkg-config could not find xerces-c options.
>> Check the config.log file for details
>> </quote>
>>
>> Checking the config.log file reveals this:
>>
>> <quote>
>> file /home/vadmin/clam/CLAM/SConstruct,line 77:
>>     Configure(confdir = .sconf_temp)
>> scons: Configure: Checking for xerces-c pkg-config
>> file... pkg-config --cflags --libs xerces-c
>> Package xerces-c was not found in the pkg-config search
>> path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing
>> `xerces-c.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> No package 'xerces-c' found
>> scons: Configure: no
>> </quote>
>>
>> I can't find a file named 'xerces-c.pc' (using "sudo find
>> / -name  'xerces-c.pc'") , so I'm wondering what I should
>> do next...  Any  suggestions?  I'm pretty new to Linux,
>> so go easy on me. ;)  Thanks in  advance.
>>
>
>You need xerces-c, that is in the package libxerces-c-dev.
>See the  section 2.1 in the INSTALL, that says how to
>install all the required  dependencies.
>
>
>Best regards,
>Natanael.
>

LOL!  I had accidentally modified the INSTALL file and
changed the name of the xerces package.  Doh!  Thanks! 
Getting much farther now. :D

Frank.



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