[Users] Problem compiling plugins

[Owen]

> In Claws-Mail 3.9.0 I am having error messages when running
> "configure"
> on any of the downloaded plugins that came from the CM download site.
>
> The error says:  No package 'claws-mail' found
>
> The CM executable is in the normal place, "/usr/bin/claws-mail".  The
> support & configuration files are located in "/common/.claws-Mail"
> with a symlink from my "/home/tom" directory pointing to them.
>
> I have tried changing the "PKG_CONFIG_PATH" to contain both of the
> above locations but it hasn't made any difference.  I also tried
> compiling as ROOT user with the same symlink but that didn't work
> either.
>
> CM was installed to it's default locations and the .claws-mail folder
> was then moved to /common/.claws-mail and the symlink created.  I do
> this so I can use CM with different distros using the same data for
> all
> of them (also ensuring they are all using the same versions).
>
> I would appreciate any advice/instructions about how to get the
> compilation process to work without throwing errors.







You probably need the development files for claws-mail, this distro
I'm using calls it   libclaws-mail-dev



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Owen