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I am trying to build an application I am making into launchpad for my PPA, and, while it builds the DEB just fine locally, it fails in launchpad.

The build log complains that Project ERROR: Package x11 not found while I totally build-depend on libx11-dev, and a package named x11 does not exist!

Here's the PPA : https://launchpad.net/~hakermania/+archive/macropolo/+packages

The buildlog (i386): https://launchpadlibrarian.net/115106043/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-i386.macropolo_0.3-0ubuntu1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

Can you please solve this mystery?

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Apparantly your program uses pkg-config in order to find compiler flags for the X11 library. However, you do not have that package added to your build dependencies, resulting in:

sh: 1: pkg-config: not found

Solution: add pkg-config to your Build-Depends.

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  • Thanks. I've built quite a lot of packages in launchpad and this is the 1st time that I need to include pkg-config into the Build-Depends field. Can you please explain why?
    – hytromo
    Sep 19, 2012 at 14:15
  • Developers can choose to use pkg-config to determine whether a package is available. An alternative is checking whether a package compiles (assuming standard header and library directories). Read more about pkg-config in its manual page.
    – Lekensteyn
    Sep 19, 2012 at 14:47

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