On Mon, 07.01.08 18:49, Karl Larsen (k5di at zianet.com) wrote: > Well I got the tarball of this version on my Fedora 8 operating > system. It unpacked just fine and I got busy with ./configure but it > errored out like this: > > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes > checking for LIBSNDFILE... configure: error: Package requirements ( > sndfile >= 1.0.10 ) were not met: > > No package 'sndfile' 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 LIBSNDFILE_CFLAGS > and LIBSNDFILE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. > See the pkg-config man page for more details. > > I will see if pkg-config man page helps. As a rule they don't :-) > This is only a dependency problem. Install libsndfile-devel and you should be set. It's probably better to pick the PA 0.9.8 RPMS from Rawhide instead of trying to compile PA on your own. PA has a a lot of dependencies and is thus not trivial to compile correctly, whith all options enabled properly. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4