Re: dependency hell over glib stuffs

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 20:33, busmanus wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I've setup an env var $PKG_CONFIG_PATH thats correct, and I reran
>
>Well, the details are much too complicated for me, but there's
>one thing I seem to understand, and this thing is, that it's
>a better idea to pass eg. PKG_CONFIG_PATH (or LD_LIBRARY_PATH too)
>directly on the ./configure command line, and not to "hardwire" it
>in the startup files. An example:
>
>PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> ./configure
>
>I hope that will be of some help.
>
>busmanus

It does sound like a good idea, but that also means I'd have to 
remember it.  Setting the var and exporting it in .bashrc is a 
one-time deal.  For this often forgetfull old codger its a no brainer 
:-)

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