Re: GTK build crashes under X

[Henrik Enberg]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Btw, this pkg-config thingy is a terrible nuisance.  I recently had to
> build some package on a RH box, and was amazed to find that all the
> ``usual'' tricks of getting `configure' to use non-default include and
> library paths simply don't work, because that package's `configure'
> script used pkg-config to find all the headers and libraries, and as
> you say above, what pkg-config returns cannot be overridden easily.
> For example, "LDFLAGS=-L/whatever ./configure" cannot override the
> places where the linker run by `configure' looks for libraries.  This
> means, for example, that if you are an underprivileged user who
> installs packages and libraries under ~/, you have no hope of getting
> the compiler and the linker to use headers and libraries in those
> private directories, since pkg-config doesn't know about them and
> keeps pointing the build process to the public directories.
> 
> (If there's a reasonable way of working around this, please let me
> know.)

"PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/dir/with/foo.pc ./configure"