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

[JD]

On 02/25/2011 02:49 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
> 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.
$ rpm -qf --whatprovides /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmime-2.6.pc
gmime-devel-2.5.1-1.fc13.i686

So, if the package you are trying to build is looking for gmime.pc,
the app's configure script or main Makefile need to be modified
to look for gmime-2.6.pc

good luck.