(DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION): Document usage

of PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
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Jan Djärv 2006-12-08 07:19:16 +00:00
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@ -383,6 +383,16 @@ to look in `/bar/mylib' for libraries, pass the -O3 optimization
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