While trying to install chickadee on Ubuntu, I ran ./configure inside the extracted folder and got errors as below:
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes <> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes configure: checking for guile 3.0 configure: checking for guile 2.2 configure: error: No Guile development packages were found. Please verify that you have Guile installed. If you installed Guile from a binary distribution, please verify that you have also installed the development packages. If you installed it yourself, you might need to adjust your PKG_CONFIG_PATH; see the pkg-config man page for more. I've already installed Guile-3.0.1 via apt install. I am able to see Guile inside /usr/bin/, but I'm not able to see Guile inside /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig as mentioned in this answer.
I also tried updating PKG_CONFIG_PATH with the values: /usr/bin/pkg-config and it did not work.
Here is the relevant log from config.log inside the chickadee folder:
~/Downloads/chickadee-0.5.0$ cat config.log | grep pkg configure:2510: checking for pkg-config configure:2528: found /usr/bin/pkg-config configure:2540: result: /usr/bin/pkg-config configure:2565: checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0 Package guile-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Package guile-2.2 was not found in the pkg-config search path. to adjust your PKG_CONFIG_PATH; see the pkg-config man page for more. ac_cv_path_ac_pt_PKG_CONFIG=/usr/bin/pkg-config PKG_CONFIG='/usr/bin/pkg-config' 2 Answers
It seems you installed only the application, and not the development libraries, asked for by configure. In your case, try :
sudo apt-get install guile-3.0-dev
What packages are available can be listed by :
apt-cache search guile
A library can use pkg-config to communicate build info to other libraries (location of libraries, compiler flags, ...). This is stored in a .pc file. If this .pc file is not stored in the default pkg-config search path, it is possible to extend the search path of pkg-config.
Find the .pc file yourself, suppose your library is called guile-something, then try e.g.
sudo find / -name "guile*.pc"
Assuming that the pc file is found in e.g. /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig this directory may be added to the pkg-config path by adding the line
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
either to ~/.bashrc, then it will be set at every invocation of bash
or to ~/.profile, then it will be set at every login
To list all the libraries currently seen by pkg-config, execute
pkg-config --list-all
