HELP! Can't compile a program or an RPM due to a missing .pc file

[John Aldrich]

On Thu February 24 2011, Mohamed El Morabity wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I'm trying to build/compile a new RPM of the latest and greatest PAN
> > newsreader
> 
> pan is still alive \o/
> 
> > , but I can't even get the tarball to compile because it's
> > complaining about a missing gmime. Now I've *got* gmime installed and
> > it's newer than the minimum version, but the gmime.pc file is missing
> > and I don't know enough to create it.
> 
> Install the gmime-devel package
>
I already tried that. :-( I also tried removing and reinstalling it, I've 
tried "reinstalling" it... No joy, the gmime.pc file is not there.