Compiling - enchant dependency not met when enchant-2 is installed

[vie-des-idees]

Trying to compile last version ( 8a21c6c from 2018-06-25 ) on Manjaro distro (kernel 4.15.18-3-MANJARO), I get the following error

checking for GTKMM... yes
checking for ENCHANT... no
configure: error: Package requirements (enchant >= 1.4.0) were not met:

Package 'enchant', required by 'virtual:world', not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables ENCHANT_CFLAGS
and ENCHANT_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I don't have *-dev packages to install as in debian based distros, here are the packages I have available:

$ pacman -Ss enchant
extra/enchant 2.2.3-1 [installed]
    A wrapper library for generic spell checking
extra/php-enchant 7.2.8-1
    enchant module for PHP
community/python-gtkspellcheck 4.0.5-4
    Spell-checking library written in Python for Gtk based on Enchant
community/python-pyenchant 2.0.0-2
    PyEnchant is a spellchecking library for Python3 based on the Enchant library
community/python2-gtkspellcheck 4.0.5-4
    Spell-checking library written in Python for Gtk based on Enchant
community/python2-pyenchant 2.0.0-2 [installed]
    PyEnchant is a spellchecking library for Python2 based on the Enchant library

So pkg-config would be looking for /usr/lib/pkgconfig/enchant.pc when what I have is /usr/lib/pkgconfig/enchant-2.pc .

I thought of making symlinks as a workaround, but it sounds a bit messy to me as there might be incompatibility between the major version numbers (I did not check).

Would it be possible to fix the dependency checking itself ? I'm more than rusty in C/CPP programming and don't know much about the autotools. Maybe something like manisandro/qtspell#3 would help ( commit 38df124 )

[kitone]

Hi,
Could you give me the output of these two commands ?

pkg-config --modversion enchant
pkg-config --modversion enchant-2

best regards,
kitone

[vie-des-idees]

Sure:

$ pkg-config --modversion enchant
Package enchant was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `enchant.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'enchant', required by 'virtual:world', not found

$ pkg-config --modversion enchant-2
2.2.3

[kitone]

Thanks, can you try with the last commit.