Problems installing Daccord on macOS

Question

I'm trying to install a bioinformatics tool, called Daccord on my Mac.

Unfortunately my computer savvy is very limited and my troubleshooting is pretty much trial and error.

The README says:

daccord needs libmaus2 https://github.com/gt1/libmaus2. libmaus2 needs to be built with support for the GMP library. When libmaus2 is installed in ${LIBMAUSPREFIX} then daccord can be compiled and installed in ${HOME}/daccord using

autoreconf -i -f
./configure --with-libmaus2=${LIBMAUSPREFIX} \
    --prefix=${HOME}/daccord
make install

I did install libmaus2 (at least I hope I did), I also installed GMP, but I have no idea whether libmaus2 was "built with support for the GMP library".

My guess is that I have to replace ${LIBMAUSPREFIX} with the right path? Maybe ${HOME} too.

I tried /usr/local/bin because the libmaus-README said:

By default, make install installs the package's commands under /usr/local/bin, include files under /usr/local/include, etc.

I also tried the path of the libmaus release file.

So far the result is always:

configure: error: Package requirements (libmaus2 >= 2.0.352) were not met:
No package 'libmaus2' 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 libmaus2_CFLAGS
and libmaus2_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Now, I additionally tried to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH using

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib

/usr/local/lib contains libmaus2 and a lot of other files starting with libmaus2 so I would guess that's the right path. But

./configure --with-libmaus2=/usr/local/lib --prefix=${HOME}/daccord

or

./configure --with-libmaus2=${LIBMAUSPREFIX} --prefix=${HOME}/daccord

Still results in the error mentioned above.

Would be great if someone could give me a few pointers as to how to proceed.

Answer 1

It seems to me that libmaus2 was not correctly installed, so you might need to really install it after all.

I'm not a user of libmaus2, but I did notice that it says that you need to provide the libmaus2 base directory when calling configure for a dependent.

Meaning that if you configured libmaus2 with :

./configure --prefix=${HOME}/libmaus2

then you might use for building the dependent package :

./configure --with-libmaus2=${HOME}/libmaus2

I also have no idea whether libmaus2 is built by default with support for the GMP library, but this might be a config parameter that you can check.

EDIT: Daccord is finally running after some help from the author. Here is how:

First, gmp had to be given the libmaus2 path:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Then libmaus2 had to be informed about that too:

./configure --with-gmp=/usr/local --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Then daccord could be installed with:

./configure --with-libmaus2=/usr/local --prefix=${HOME}/daccord
make install

And, all that has to be done with the newest release version of both libmaus2 and daccord, which are not hosted on github, but on gitlab.