[gimp] HACKING: add some missing info



commit 025354b914ffda56331845108263441a2a5c6f22
Author: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu src gnome org>
Date:   Sun Feb 22 19:20:19 2015 +0100

    HACKING: add some missing info

 HACKING |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 4cf966b..316547b 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.
+
 
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