missing accountsservice.pc ?

[Patrick Welche]

Just tried to build gdm 3.28.2 from source on ubuntu 16.04.4.

Configure fails with:

configure: error: Package requirements (gobject-2.0 >= 2.36.0
        gio-2.0 >= 2.36.0
        gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.36.0
        accountsservice >= 0.6.35
        xcb
) were not met:

Package 'accountsservice', required by 'virtual:world', not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

According to apt, the following are installed:

accountsservice/xenial-updates,now 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  query and manipulate user account information

gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0/xenial-updates,now 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.3 amd64 [installed]
  GObject introspection data for AccountService

libaccountsservice-dev/xenial-updates,now 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.3 amd64 [installed]
  query and manipulate user account information - header files

libaccountsservice0/xenial-updates,now 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  query and manipulate user account information - shared libraries

Neither /usr/lib/pkgconfig nor /usr/share/pkgconfig contain accountsservice.pc => I am assuming that it is missing.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

It's not missing.

$ dpkg -L libaccountsservice-dev | grep pc$
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/accountsservice.pc

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