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changeset 74486:917f46cb7b70
(DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION): Document usage
of PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
| author | Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> |
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| date | Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:19:16 +0000 |
| parents | 95f50965aa9c |
| children | 3f957e6a97c1 |
| files | INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL Fri Dec 08 07:18:59 2006 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL Fri Dec 08 07:19:16 2006 +0000 @@ -383,6 +383,16 @@ switch to the compiler, and link against libfoo.a and libbar.a libraries in addition to the standard ones. +For some libraries, like Gtk+, fontconfig and ALSA, `configure' use +pkg-config to find where those libraries are installed. +If you wan't pkg-config to look in special directories, you have to set +the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directories +where the .pc-files for those libraries are. +For example: + + PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/usr/local/alsa/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gtk+-2.8/lib/pkgconfig' \ + ./configure + The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the distribution, but using `configure' is easier. See the section called "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the configuration