Re: Why p11-kit-1 instead of p11-kit?

[Jim Lloyd]

I configure and install p11-kit using the usual incantation:

./configure && make && sudo make install

This seems to run without errors. However, 'make check' does report one test failure. I logged that failure:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47374

Anyway, I would expect that the usual incantation should be enough to locate p11-kit when I configure GnuTLS. But it isn't able to find it. I've never needed to use pkg-config before so its still a bit mysterious to me, but I would expect that after installing p11-kit that one of these two commands would output something useful:

$ pkg-config --libs p11-kit

$ pkg-config --libs p11-kit-1

Both produce an error like this one (for the 2nd command above):

Package p11-kit-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `p11-kit-1.pc'

to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No package 'p11-kit-1' found

Is there some reason why I have to do something beyond the usual incantation when installing p11-kit?

Thanks,

Jim

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote:

On 03/15/2012 10:41 PM, Jim Lloyd wrote:

> Sorry to bug the list with this question, but this seems to be a case where
> Google does not know all.
>
> I'm attempting to build gnutls 2.12.17 on CentOS 6.0 x86-64. I'm doing this
> specifically for PKCS11 support, which we are adding to an existing product.
>
> I have built and installed p11-kit 0.12. But when I configure gnutls I get
> this error:
>
> checking for P11_KIT... configure: error: Package requirements (p11-kit-1
>> = 0.11) were not met:
> No package 'p11-kit-1' found
>
> Why p11-kit-1 instead of p11-kit? Does this indicate that I need a forked
> variant of p11-kit?

Not really. p11-kit advertises itself as p11-kit-1. You might want to
check config.log for the reason of non-detection.

regards,
Nikos