Hello Adolf, > On 3 May 2023, at 14:23, Adolf Belka wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > On 03/05/2023 14:58, Adolf Belka wrote: >> >> On 03/05/2023 14:35, Adolf Belka wrote: >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> On 03/05/2023 14:07, Michael Tremer wrote: >>>> Hello Adolf, >>>> >>>> Normally you should not need to add anything extra for this to work. The compiler should know where to search for libraries. >>>> >>>> If pkg-config is being used, this might be a little bit different. >>> Just before the various packages are checked to exist the configure also checks that pkg-config is existing. >>>> >>>>> On 3 May 2023, at 13:02, Adolf Belka wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> There is a new version for rng-tools so I thought I would do an update but it kept stopping saying that it required libcap and could not find it. >>>>> >>>>> I noted that the libcap libs are in /lib and not in /usr/lib as the other packages that rng-tools looks for have their libs. (openssl, libxml2, curl, jansson) >>>>> >>>>> The new version has a flag for the ./configure called libcap_LIBS which can be used to override pkg-config. >>>>> >>>>> I tried that in various ways such as libcap_LIBS="/lib" or libcap_LIBS="/lib/libcap.so.2.67" and others, but none of them worked. The ./configure still ended up with the message >>>>> >>>>> checking for libcap... no >>>>> configure: error: libcap is required >>>>> >>>>> I then noticed that libcap.pc is in /lib/pkgconfig/ while all the other packages being searched for are in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ >>>> >>>> This should indeed be installed to /usr/lib/pkgconfig. >>>> >>>> I don’t have a problem with simply changing —-prefix=/ to —-prefix=/usr for libcap, because we don’t support a split /usr directory anyways. That should make it easier. >> Looking through the libcap README and Makefile then the .pc files should be getting placed in /usr/lib/pkgconfig but they aren't. Also as $(prefix) is not defined then the prefix should be /usr but again it is not. > > I think I must have misread what the Makefile etc were intending to do. > > I just tried a quick build of libcap with adding prefix=/usr to the make and make install lines and the lib files and the .pc files are now in /usr/lib/ and /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ > > The only remaining question I have is if anything else in IPFire would be expecting to see the lib files for libcap in /lib/ instead of /usr/lib/ because then the symlinking of the lib from /lib/ to /usr/lib/ won't be needed any more. No, pkg-config should never search in /lib. > What is libcap used for so I can test out the built iso on a vm machine? It is quite widely used to manage capabilities of a running program. I can give some privileges away and limit itself so that any remote code executing could not cause too much damage for example. /usr/bin/ping is for example linked against libcap. If you can execute it, everything is fine. > Regards, > > Adolf. > >>> libcap currently keeps the library files in /lib/ but makes a symlink to one of them in /usr/lib/. Libcap doesn't have a configure line. There is a sed command on the Makefile to stop it building static libs and then it goes straight to make and then make install >>>> >>>>> I then manually did a copy of libcap.pc to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ and then re ran just the rng-tools build and it then successfully found libcap and completed the build. So the problem is definitely to do withy the unusual location for the library files of libcap. >>>> >>>> Do we have any other packages that install .pc files into funny places? >>> The other .pc files that are in /lib/pkgconfig/ are libkeyutils, libproc-2, libpsx and libsysfs >>>> >> The libpsx.pc file is also from libcap. >>>>> So the question I have is what is the best way to deal with this. >>>>> >>>>> Should I add into the libcap lfs a line that copies the libcap.pc to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ or >>>>> >>>>> is can someone tell me what I am doing wrong with the libcap_LIBS flag for ./configure >>>>> >> I think that rather than trying to adjust libcap to work the way it says it should be anyway, I will add a copy line into the lfs to move the libcap.pc file to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Adolf. >> >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Adolf. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -Michael