Re: more broken installers

[Anthony <orders nodivisions com>]

> PKG_CONFIG_PATH

Chee Bin HOH has been emailing me directly, and that was one of the 
things he mentioned.  It worked for ggv.  But then I got to gnome-media, 
and it completely ignored PKG_CONFIG_PATH as well as the other vars and 
command-line args that I specified, and STILL insisted on looking in 
/usr/bin.

> There are (at least) two conventions for where to install things in a
> linux system. When using any given convention, you have to take
> specific, explicit steps to tell the compile/install process to also
> use the other convention when resolving dependencies etc.

Yes.  Like:

	LDFLAGS
	LD_LIBRARY_PATH
	PKG_CONFIG_PATH
	--prefix
	--libdir

But it doesn't matter if you set them, when the installer completely 
ignores them.  The problem here isn't my setting these things; the 
problem is that the installers keep finding ways around those settings, 
and looking where they want to instead.

> Its basically a total nightmare.

Aha!  That is the magic phrase that I was waiting for someone else to 
say.  Thank you.  I have spent over a week on this nonsense, hitting the 
exact same problem over and over, but having the previous solution fail 
for the next package.  Completely ridiculous.

I'm trying dropline Gnome now and, failing that, I'm doing an "upgrade" 
install from the lastest slackware-current CD.  Even if I have to 
re-install my applications, that would be a treat compared to wrestling 
with this crap for weeks.

Paul Davis wrote:
> > Various kludgey fixes for this brokenness have worked for other 
> > packages.  export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" worked for gedit, and 
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib worked for pango.  But not ggv.  I 
> > also tried to pass --libdir=/usr/local/lib.  But ggv doesn't seem to 
> > care that I've told it in many ways to look in /usr/local/lib; it 
> > insists on looking in /usr/lib, because the files aren't there.
>
>
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH
>
>
> > CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY THESE INSTALLERS ARE LOOKING IN THE WRONG 
> > PLACE.  Please.  Please help.  This is so frustrating.
>
>
> There are (at least) two conventions for where to install things in a
> linux system. When using any given convention, you have to take
> specific, explicit steps to tell the compile/install process to also
> use the other convention when resolving dependencies
> etc. Unfortunately, there is no single step that you can take to do
> this. Instead, you have to use --prefix with configure, set
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH and various other things.
>
> Its basically a total nightmare.
>
> --p