Re: pkg-config

[Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>]

> Well, but really they want to look in $(gnome_libs_prefix) AND in each
> component of $GNOME_PATH. Given that someone else commented on certain
> functions searching $(gnome_libs_prefix) but ignoring GNOME_PATH,
> maybe it would be best to not let pkg-config tell you gnome-libs's
> prefix, but instead have a gnome-libs function that searches for
> files/paths in each of the possible directories (its own compiled-in
> prefix, plus the GNOME_PATH paths), and make people use that to make
> sure that future functions don't require installing things into
> gnome-libs's prefix.

Aha - interesting :) I'll keep this in mind when (if?) I write the code 
to index the help files of the installed applications.