I have followed both of these guides to install custom versions of podman on centos7

• Official podman
• computingforgeeks

I have had more luck with the latter but i get stuck toward the end of the process when i run either of these two commands

make BUILDTAGS="selinux seccomp"
make BUILDTAGS=""

I get this error

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Podman is being compiled without the systemd build tag. Install libsystemd on Ubuntu or systemd-devel on rpm based distro for journald support.
CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build

-ldflags ‘ -X github.com/containers/podman/v4/libpod/define.buildInfo=1683922470 -X github.com/containers/podman/v4/libpod/config._installPrefix=/usr/local -X github.com/containers/podman/v4/libpod/config._etcDir=/usr/local/etc -X github.com/containers/common/pkg/config.additionalHelperBinariesDir= ‘
-tags ""
-o bin/podman ./cmd/podman
go build github.com/proglottis/gpgme:
# pkg-config –cflags — gpgme
Package gpgme was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gpgme.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘gpgme’ found
pkg-config: exit status 1

Now i have looked online and people have said it is because gpgme isn’t installed. However it is. I have also followed the path of removing and reinstalling

sudo yum remove gpgme-devel -y

sudo yum -y install https://cbs.centos.org/kojifiles/packages/gpgme/1.7.1/0.el7.centos.1/x86_64/gpgme-1.7.1-0.el7.centos.1.x86_64.rpm

sudo yum -y install https://cbs.centos.org/kojifiles/packages/gpgme/1.7.1/0.el7.centos.1/x86_64/gpgme-devel-1.7.1-0.el7.centos.1.x86_64.rpm

Howevet if i search for gpgme.pc i can not not locate it

sudo find / -name gpgme*

I have struggled with this for days. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks