[Libtorrent-devel] Configure errors with Mac OS X

[Josef Drexler]

On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:57 PM, Emil Sandnabba wrote:
> Hi! I'm trying o compile rTorrent (libtorrent) on my macbook with  
> OS X 10.5.1 (Leopard). Apple Dev tools are of course installed, and  
> i saw this bugg report:
> http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/138
>
> See the third last answer. Everything is done, but ./configure  
> fails with:
>
> checking if compiler supports __attribute__((visibility 
> ("default")))... yes
> ./configure: line 22317: syntax error near unexpected token `OPENSSL,'
> ./configure: line 22317: `      PKG_CHECK_MODULES(OPENSSL, openssl,'


This suggests that pkg-config isn't installed, or that it installed  
pkg.m4 in a place where automake cannot find it. Or maybe automake is  
too old. In any case, after installing pkg-config, you'll need to re- 
run autogen.sh in the libtorrent directory to rebuild the configure  
script.

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Josef Drexler
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