Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path REDHAT6.5

Question

I am trying to run setup.py related to a proprietary software installation and it has dependencies on libffi.

Since its Redhat 6.5 the python version was 2.6 and i i

Answer 1

I had the same issue for MacOS. I assume the solution should be similar.

nano ~/.bash_profile

Add these two lines below to the end of your bash_profile so that it can be discovered

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib" 

Save and quit and restart Terminal