./configure && make install失败

Question

Good Morning While i'm installing RabbitMQ libraries, I found a problem:

autoreconf -i && ./configure && make && sudo make install

But ./configure stop at this position:

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99
./configure: line 11104: syntax error near unexpected token `0.17'
./configure: line 11104: `PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG(0.17)'

Answer 1

your autotools project uses pkg-config , but it seems that you either don't have that installed at all or you are lacking the "pkg-config <-> autotools" glue ( pkg.m4 ), which provides the PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro.

if this is true, then the autoreconf -i should have complained when recreating configure (though probably only as a non-fatal warning) -> check your build-logs.

you should be able to fix this by installing pkg-config

NOTE : generally, if you get an error it's good to break down the problem into sub-problems. since you are really calling four different tasks ( autoreconf , ./configure and make and sudo make install ), you might want to execute them one by one and see where it actually fails (in your case: the 2nd tasks), and what the prior steps indicated (the autoreconf-call).