Re: [Evolution] Building 2.4.2.1 from tgz file

[Benjamin A'Lee <lists benalee co uk>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:26:07PM -0800, Ron Eggler (Mobile) wrote:
> > > > I have this perverse desire to install software from source files
> > > > whenever possible. Thus, I've tried to install the latest version of
> > > > evolution on my SuSE 10.0 laptop. Unfortunately, when I configure, the
> > > > routine stalls and tells me camel-provider 1.2 isn't installed. It is,
> > > > so I use export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/~ to point the configure script to the
> > > > right directory for the lib file. I run the configure script again, and
> > > > this time it stalls, saying I don't have gnome-icon-theme -- which I do.
> > > > So I point the configure script to that, and it stalls again on
> > > > camel-provider. Which leads me to conclude I can point to only one
> > > > altered config path for each time I run the configure script. Is there
> > > > some way around this? I've never run into this before -- usually, I've
> > > > only come up with one "you don't have this software" message. So it's
> > > > been easy to deal with.
>
> Can noone provide some further help?

Off the top of my head: can't you do PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/some/path:/other/path ?

    Ben