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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aron Wahlberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to test my installation of FEniCS (on my mac OS10.4)  
> with the provided deoms and some of them work. However, for many of  
> them I get the error "OSError: The pkg-config package is not  
> installed on the system". But when I look for it it seem that I have  
> it. Maybe in the wrong place?
> 
> matcent18:~ aronwahlberg$ locate pkg-config
> /sw/bin/pkg-config
> /sw/bin/pkg-config.real
> /sw/share/man/man1/pkg-config.1
> /sw/src/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
> 
> Also, 'locate pkgconfig' gives me a very long list.

Make sure your PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains the path to where your FEniCS
pkgconfig files go. Running 'source dolfin.conf' in the DOLFIN folder
ought to set this for you.

Harish