Canot find library on compile - fixing PKG_CONFIG_PATH isn't working

UNIX macOS
1

I am using bash on OSX Leopard.

When I attempt ./configure I get this error:

checking for OPENSSL... configure: error: Package requirements (openssl) were not met:

No package 'openssl' 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 OPENSSL_CFLAGS
and OPENSSL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

So then I do "locate openssl.pc" and that returns "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/openssl.pc"

Then I do "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig"
That returns "0.9.7l" so I know that pkg-config can find it.
But then when I enter "./configure" again I get the exact same error as before.

2

Hi,

If you say which package you are trying to build it might be
easier to determine the problem. Odds are somebody has
already tried to build it.

A.

3

Without any further information,
you can either set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
in the global 'profile' file as I do, located
in '/etc/profile' or the usual way to define
environmental variables with the more modern
./configure is to put it on the same line e.g.

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig ./configure

Hope this helps.

A.