Re: GTK build crashes under X

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:42:40 +0100
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> It can be a pain sometimes, but for the most part it works quite well.

As long as you can play by its rules.  If you can't, God help you.

> Do we document the LDFLAGS-trick somewhere?

Yes, in INSTALL.

> We should add something about PKG_CONFIG_PATH there.

Yes.

> The initial motivation (I think) was that the thing pkg-config does was too 
> complicated for configure.

As with many human endeavors, the idea was good, but the result is
ugly.

> In summary, pkg-config is a very helpful tool, but you have to get use to it.

It is indeed useful, but only as long as your installation doesn't
need to do something extraordinary.