Using CFLAGS and LDFLAGS on command line to find bitlbee includes and libs

[ikwyl6]

On arch Linux alarm 4.4.238-1-ARCH #1 PREEMPT Sat Oct 3 05:39:18 UTC 2020 armv5tel GNU/Linux I've installed bitlbee using pacman with version:

$ bitlbee -V
BitlBee 3.6
API version 030600
Configure args: --prefix=/usr --etcdir=/etc/bitlbee --sbindir=/usr/bin --pidfile=/run/bitlbee/bitlbee.pid --ipcsocket=/run/bitlbee/bitlbee.sock --systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system --ssl=gnutls --otr=plugin

I cannot find a bitlbee-dev pkg under pacman but there are include and libs under these directories from the bitlbee installation:

$ ls /usr/include/bitlbee/
account.h  base64.h   canohost.h  config.h  ft.h      http_client.h  irc.h        log.h   nick.h    oauth2.h  query.h  sock.h        url.h
arc.h      bee.h      commands.h  dcc.h     ftutil.h  ini.h          json.h       md5.h   nogaim.h  otr.h     set.h    ssl_client.h  xmltree.h
auth.h     bitlbee.h  conf.h      events.h  help.h    ipc.h          json_util.h  misc.h  oauth.h   proxy.h   sha1.h   storage.h

$ ls /usr/lib/bitlbee/
otr.so

when I run ./configure in the bitlbee-discord directory, the script ends with:

./configure: line 12538: syntax error near unexpected token `BITLBEE,'                                                                                                                     
./configure: line 12538: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(BITLBEE, bitlbee >= 3.5)'

which tells me it can't find the bitlbee header files (.h) or the libraries. When I pass:

$ CLFAGS=-I/usr/include/bitlbee/ LDFLAGS=-I/usr/lib/bitlbee/ ./configure I get the same error above (line 12538).

Is there a way to pass these directories to the configure script so it finds these headers and libraries?

[Alcaro]

Does it work better if you pass CFLAGS= instead of CLFAGS=?

[sm00th]

./configure shouldn't have syntax errors so maybe it got corrupted or wasn't built properly in the first place. Try rebuilding it with ./autogen.sh and make sure there are no errors on that step.

[ikwyl6]

@Alcaro oops.. I thought you were joking but you weren't. my bad! And I did have a typo in there like you pointed out but I did change it on command line so it says CFLAGS (doh!) and it still gives the same error (the two lines that reference line 12538). @sm00th I get the same error if I use your git repo and run the steps or the arch linux AUR PKGBUILD so I'm at a loss. I did an ./autogen.sh and this is output (no errors): https://pastebin.com/ALpfjxWK I re-ran ./configure after re-running autogen.sh and I get the same output (line 12538): https://pastebin.com/gLBR2A1V and running it with the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS gives same result. I will try downloading the v3.6 version of bitlbee and compiling the libraries from that and linking to that directory to see if it works.. unless there are some other ideas...

[sm00th]

Make sure you have pkgconfig installed and that it installed the following file: /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4. And after that is sorted re-do autogen (or start the aur-build from scratch).

[ikwyl6]

looks like I needed pkg-config installed. Re-ran ./autogen.sh, ./configure and make, sudo make install and it compiled fine. thanks for the help!

[ikwyl6]

just for future.. I don't think bitlbee is still offered by pacman so I had to compile it myself and then had to do the following for bitlbee-discord to get it to compile:

BITLBEE_CFLAGS=-I/home/alarm/dev/bitlbee-aur/bitlbee-3.6 -I/home/alarm/dev/bitlbee-aur/bitlbee-3.6/protocols -I/home/alarm/dev/bitlbee-aur/bitlbee-3.6/lib BITLBEE_LIBS=-L/home/alarm/dev/bitlbee-aur/bitlbee-3.6 ./configure --with-plugindir=/var/lib/bitlbee

Had to use absolute directories for BITLBEE_CFLAGS and BITLBEE_LIBS and not relative and where --with-plugindir was the plugindir that I had used for bitlbee compile time.