[MonoDevelop] Error running pkg-config

Ian D. Stewart idstewart@compuvative.com
Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:21:43 -0500


Tom McCubbin wrote:

> Bill Bodine wrote:
>
>> When I attempt: "Import a Visual Studio .NET project", I get the 
>> following error:
>>  
>> "Error running pkg-config.  Check the above output."
>>  
>> Unfortunately, there is no applicable output above this.  Anyone have 
>> any ideas what package is attempting to be loaded here or how I can 
>> resolve this?
>>  
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
>
>
> pkg-config is looking for some *.pc file needed to do its job.  The 
> normal place these live are in:
>
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig
>
> If you installed 'stuff' under a different prefix then you need to 
> tell pkg-config where to find the *.pc files.

Also see http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61368 (Crash while 
importing VS project).


Ian