Using CFLAGS and LDFLAGS on command line to find bitlbee includes and libs about bitlbee-discord

[Alcaro]

Does it work better if you pass CFLAGS= instead of CLFAGS=?

[sm00th]

./configure shouldn't have syntax errors so maybe it got corrupted or wasn't built properly in the first place. Try rebuilding it with ./autogen.sh and make sure there are no errors on that step.

[ikwyl6]

@Alcaro oops.. I thought you were joking but you weren't. my bad! And I did have a typo in there like you pointed out but I did change it on command line so it says CFLAGS (doh!) and it still gives the same error (the two lines that reference line 12538).
@sm00th I get the same error if I use your git repo and run the steps or the arch linux AUR PKGBUILD so I'm at a loss.
I did an ./autogen.sh and this is output (no errors):
https://pastebin.com/ALpfjxWK
I re-ran ./configure after re-running autogen.sh and I get the same output (line 12538):
https://pastebin.com/gLBR2A1V
and running it with the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS gives same result.
I will try downloading the v3.6 version of bitlbee and compiling the libraries from that and linking to that directory to see if it works.. unless there are some other ideas...

[sm00th]

Make sure you have pkgconfig installed and that it installed the following file: /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4. And after that is sorted re-do autogen (or start the aur-build from scratch).

[ikwyl6]

looks like I needed pkg-config installed. Re-ran ./autogen.sh, ./configure and make, sudo make install and it compiled fine. thanks for the help!

[ikwyl6]

just for future.. I don't think bitlbee is still offered by pacman so I had to compile it myself and then had to do the following for bitlbee-discord to get it to compile:

BITLBEE_CFLAGS=-I/home/alarm/dev/bitlbee-aur/bitlbee-3.6 -I/home/alarm/dev/bitlbee-aur/bitlbee-3.6/protocols -I/home/alarm/dev/bitlbee-aur/bitlbee-3.6/lib BITLBEE_LIBS=-L/home/alarm/dev/bitlbee-aur/bitlbee-3.6 ./configure --with-plugindir=/var/lib/bitlbee

Had to use absolute directories for BITLBEE_CFLAGS and BITLBEE_LIBS and not relative and where --with-plugindir was the plugindir that I had used for bitlbee compile time.