Bug 76371 – [GTK] Issues compiling WebKit because of libsoup dependency

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WORKSFORME
• Component: WebKitGTK

[vipin goyal]

When I use ./configure or ./autogen.sh for configuring webkit after installing dependencies it shows this type of error.

checking for LIBSOUP... no configure: error: Package requirements (libsoup-2.4 >= 2.37.2.1) were not met:

Requested 'libsoup-2.4 >= 2.37.2.1' but version of libsoup is 2.4.0

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.

I've also try it with libsoup-2.36, but it gives error also and when I update libsoup from 2.36 to 2.4.0 or 2.4.1, problem is not resolved. I've googled it lot, also configure pkg-config and ld_library path. but it gives error on both of my system i.e. fedora 16 and ubuntu 11.10 Please help me.
There is not any libsoup2.4 package, but 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 is there but both of them are not working. please help

[Sergio Villar Senin]

You're mixing a couple of things here. The package name in Ubuntu is libsoup2.4-1, but the library version is not 2.4 (as the name might suggest). In Ubuntu 11.10 is 2.36 for example.

So in order to build current webkitgtk+ you need a libsoup release >= 2.37.2.1, which is not provided by Ubuntu 11.10, so you either upgrade your distribution or build the latest libsoup release from sources (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsoup/2.37/)

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