From 025354b914ffda56331845108263441a2a5c6f22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikael Magnusson Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:20:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] HACKING: add some missing info --- HACKING | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 4cf966bcb9..316547b5ac 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ option "--disable-gtk-doc" to autogen.sh. This will completely disable the support for gtk-doc so you will not be able to generate the API documentation. +If you want to use libraries from a non-standard prefix, you should set +PKG_CONFIG_PATH appropriately. Some libraries do not use pkgconfig, see +the output of ./configure --help for information on what environment +variables to set to point the compiler and linker to the correct path. +Note that you need to do this even if you are installing Gimp itself +into the same prefix as the library. + Git ---