Comment 35 for bug 1623666

@Sadi Yumuşak (sa-yu) #31:
I had the same problem you documented, and found it was because of a conflicting pkg-config. In my case, I had one installed in ~/.linuxbrew/bin/pkg-config, which was picked up in my PATH before /usr/bin/pkg-config. The solution was to temporarily rename the one in my linuxbrew so that the one in /usr/bin was used.

@J. McDonald (mcdonald-joseph) #34:
You list the commands you've used, but not their output. I suspect that the output of autogen.sh is similar to what sa-yu experienced in his note. The specific error you're seeing from make means that the input file that it expects by default, which is named Makefile, cannot be found. It is the autogen.sh script which produces that Makefile. Its failure is likely due to a problem similar to what sa-yu describes.

@Adam Szmigin (smidge) @28: #28
Fine instructions. I confirm that they work on Linux Mint 18.1 x64.
Just for clarity, readers should know that the command "$ cd ~/path/to/my/build/dir" shouldn't be taken literally. Instead, it's shorthand for a couple commands like
$ mkdir -p ~/build/libimobiledevice
$ cd ~/build/libimobiledevice