autotools & pkg_config: ./autogen.sh fails to find a previously built package

[Sergio Schvezov]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Frederik Carlier <
frederik.carlier at quamotion.mobi> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm creating a Snappy package for the libimobiledevice toolset. It
> consists of a couple of projects which depend on each other, and use
> pkg-config to detect the presence of the dependencies.
> You can find my .yaml file at
> https://github.com/quamotion/snappy-arm/blob/master/libimobiledevice/snapcraft.yaml
>
> I'm having an issue building libusbmuxd. libusbmuxd depends on libplist.
> The ./autogen.sh script will try to detect libplist using pkg-config.
> I've updated my .yaml file to make ure libusbmuxd is built after libplist.
>
> At this time, when I build my package using snapcraft build, I get the
> following error:
>
> > configure: error: Package requirements (libplist >= 1.11) were not met:
> >
> > No package 'libplist' found
> >
> > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> > installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>
> I was wondering whether snapcraft is supposed to automatically update the
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable as required, or whether I need to make any changes
> to my .yaml file to get this to work?
>
>
Can you try running 'snapcraft stage'?

There is an intrinsic bug in here which won't change for 1.x when using
`after`, this is fixed in 2.x which will only target 16.04
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