I'm having problems compiling webkit and come up with this error checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking for native Win32... no checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking if g++ supports -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for bison... /usr/bin/bison checking for mv... /bin/mv checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64 checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking for working volatile... yes checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes checking for _Bool... yes checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for ar... ar checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes checking dependency style of g++... (cached) gcc3 checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking for bash... /bin/bash checking if dolt supports this host... yes, replacing libtool checking for flex... /usr/bin/flex checking for gawk... (cached) gawk checking for gperf... /usr/local/bin/gperf checking pthread.h usability... yes checking pthread.h presence... yes checking for pthread.h... yes checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... yes checking for jpeglib... yes checking for libpng12... yes checking the target windowing system... x11 checking for Hildon UI extensions... no checking for GLIB... yes checking for glib-genmarshal... /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal checking for glib-mkenums... /usr/bin/glib-mkenums checking which Unicode backend to use... icu checking for icu-config... /usr/bin/icu-config checking for LIBXML... yes checking for PANGO... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking for GAIL... yes checking for CAIRO... yes checking for GTK... yes checking for XT... yes checking whether to do a debug build... no checking whether to enable optimized builds... yes checking whether to enable Dashboard support... yes checking whether to enable support for 3D Transforms... no checking whether to enable HTML5 Channel Messaging support... yes checking whether to enable JavaScript debugger/profiler support... yes checking whether to enable HTML5 offline web applications support... yes checking whether to enable HTML5 client-side session and persistent storage support... yes checking whether to enable HTML5 client-side database storage support... yes checking whether to enable icon database support... yes checking whether to enable HTML5 ruby support... yes checking whether to enable HTML5 video support... yes checking whether to enable XPath support... yes checking whether to enable XSLT support... yes checking whether to enable geolocation support... no checking whether to enable gnomekeyring support... no checking whether to enable SVG support... yes checking whether to enable WML support... no checking whether to enable SharedWorkers support... no checking whether to enable Web Workers support... yes checking whether to enable support for SVG animation... yes checking whether to enable support for filters... no checking whether to enable support for SVG fonts... yes checking whether to enable support for SVG foreign objects... yes checking whether to enable SVG as Image support... yes checking whether to enable support for SVG use element... yes checking whether to enable Web Sockets support... no checking whether to enable code coverage support... no checking whether to enable optimized memory allocator... yes checking whether to enable JIT compilation... yes checking the font backend to use... freetype checking for LIBSOUP... configure: error: Package requirements (libsoup-2.4 >= 2.27.4) were not met: Requested 'libsoup-2.4 >= 2.27.4' but version of libsoup is 2.26.3 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBSOUP_CFLAGS and LIBSOUP_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. However this is totally incorrect as I have libsoup2.4 installed. Here is the output of locate libsoup /usr/include/libsoup-2.4 /usr/include/libsoup-gnome-2.4 /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-address.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-auth-domain-basic.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-auth-domain-digest.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-auth-domain.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-auth.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-cookie-jar-text.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-cookie-jar.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-cookie.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-date.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-enum-types.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-form.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-headers.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-logger.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-message-body.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-message-headers.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-message.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-method.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-misc.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-multipart.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-portability.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-proxy-resolver.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-proxy-uri-resolver.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-server.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-session-async.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-session-feature.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-session-sync.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-session.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-socket.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-status.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-types.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-uri.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-value-utils.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup-xmlrpc.h /usr/include/libsoup-2.4/libsoup/soup.h /usr/include/libsoup-gnome-2.4/libsoup /usr/include/libsoup-gnome-2.4/libsoup/soup-cookie-jar-sqlite.h /usr/include/libsoup-gnome-2.4/libsoup/soup-gnome-features.h /usr/include/libsoup-gnome-2.4/libsoup/soup-gnome.h /usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so /usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1 /usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1.2.0 /usr/lib/libsoup-gnome-2.4.so /usr/lib/libsoup-gnome-2.4.so.1 /usr/lib/libsoup-gnome-2.4.so.1.2.0 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libsoup-2.4.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libsoup-gnome-2.4.pc /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupAddress.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupAuth.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupAuthDomain.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupAuthDomainBasic.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupAuthDomainDigest.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupCookieJar.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupCookieJarSqlite.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupCookieJarText.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupLogger.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupMessage.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupProxyResolver.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupServer.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupSession.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupSessionAsync.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupSessionFeature.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupSessionSync.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/SoupSocket.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/ch01.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/ch02.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/ch03.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/ch04.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/ch05.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/home.png /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/index.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/index.sgml /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/ix01.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/left.png /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-2.4.devhelp /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-2.4.devhelp2 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-GValue-Support.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-HTML-Form-Support.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-Soup-Miscellaneous-Utilities.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-SoupCookie.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-SoupMessageBody.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-SoupMessageHeaders.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-SoupMultipart.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-SoupURI.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-XMLRPC-Support.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-soup-gnome-features.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-soup-method.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-24-soup-status.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-build-howto.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-client-howto.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-porting-2.2-2.4.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/libsoup-server-howto.html /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/right.png /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/style.css /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4/up.png /var/lib/pacman/local/libsoup-2.26.3-1 /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/libsoup-2.26.3-1 As you can clearly see I have libsoup 2.4 installed and the problem occurs because of two empty directories that I can't seem to sudo delete in my distro. There are really two ways you can fix the problem that I can see. 1. You can start the search alphabetically thourgh the directories so it will arrive at libsoup 2.4 first. 2. The configure script can keep searching after it finds libsoup 2.26 to see if I have a later version of libsoup installed. I hope you take this bug seriously and thank you for your time. somedude
Closing as INVALID due to this being a support request rather than a bug report. Bugzilla is not an appropriate place to ask for build help. You should use the webkit-help mailing list for that purpose. I would also suggest reading the error message that is presented to you: > Requested 'libsoup-2.4 >= 2.27.4' but version of libsoup is 2.26.3 You have libsoup-2.4 version 2.26.3. WebKit requires version 2.27.4 or newer.