Cannot find package Libvala

Question

I'm trying to configure the latest version of monodevelop but I'm stuck. I have the latest version of libvala and versions before that. Could someone please explain this to me.

checking for LIBVALA... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libvala-0.12 >= 0.12) were not met:

No package 'libvala-0.12' found

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

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBVALA_CFLAGS
and LIBVALA_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

How can I set LIBVALA_LIB? Is LIBVALA a env variable? In the configure.in for the Valabindings it looks like this:

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBVALA, libvala-0.12 >= $LIBVALA_REQUIRED_VERSION)
AC_SUBST(LIBVALA_LIBS)

What is that? How can I solve this?

Under /usr/lib/pkgconfig I have Libvala-0.12.pc if that can help. And if I run dpkg -i libvala-0.12-0 I get that it's installed and works fine.

Answer 1

Do you have libvala-0.12-dev installed? What version of Ubuntu do you have?