Re: GTK build crashes under X

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:55:06 +0100
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
> Cc: Henrik Enberg <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden
> >>
> >> "PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/dir/with/foo.pc ./configure"
> > 
> > Thanks, but this only works if the package installed privately
> > installs foo.pc.  Not every package does, since not every package
> > supports pkg-config in its source distribution.
> 
> That is true.  A workaround woould be to copy the .pc-file that mentions foo 
> to a private directory, edit it to point to your private foo, and then set 
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Alas, I couldn't find any documentation of the *.pc files' format, so
that I could edit the files.

> pkg-config needs some kind of --use or --override switch so 
> we could do this easier.

Indeed.  As things are now, it looks like the maintainers of
pkg-config didn't _want_ you to have the freedom to point it to the
non-default installation directories.