Missing path for pkg-config on amd64 debian based distros Description of problem: This error occurs when attempting to configure qemu from git : ```error ERROR: glib-2.56 gthread-2.0 is required to compile QEMU ``` Although it seems to be as simple as "_just install the dev lib!!!_" it is not that simple. 1. First of all, my system already has the library installed : ```sh dpkg -l | grep libglib2.0-dev ii libglib2.0-dev:amd64 2.74.4-1 amd64 Development files for the GLib library ii libglib2.0-dev-bin 2.74.4-1 amd64 Development utilities for the GLib library ``` 1. Second, the file required by _pkg-config_ does exist aswell : ```sh ls /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gthread-2.0.pc -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240 dez 27 20:42 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gthread-2.0.pc ``` 1. Finally, the real problem is that pkg-config is not able to identify it **unless** you specify the _x86-64_ dir : - Default usage. It fails. ```sh pkg-config --modversion gthread-2.0 Package gthread-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gthread-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'gthread-2.0', required by 'virtual:world', not found ``` - Fixed usage (temp) ```sh env PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/" pkg-config --modversion gthread-2.0 2.74.4 ``` Steps to reproduce: 1. clone qemu (master) 2. try to run _configure_ Additional information: Of course it seems to be a problem related to the program _pkg-config_ itself, or even by the distro's package, but it totally prevents any build of qemu in a debian-based distro, with architecture _amd64_.