Re: pkg-config problem

[Roland Smith <rsmith xs4all nl>]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:35:48 +0100
Ian Bell <ian@redtommo.com> wrote:

> Running `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` gives the following error:
> bash: -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0: No such file or directory
> Any ideas what is wrong?

Only call commands in backtics (`) when their output should be part of the
invocation of another program (like gcc).

Use either:

echo `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`

or 

pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0

if you want to use pkg-config separately.

What happens here is that the shell replaces the pkg-config command with its
output, and then tries to execute it. Since the output of pkg-config is a bunch
of gcc flags, the shell does not know what to do with it, hence the error
message.

Roland
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