Re: gtk

["Bill Cunningham" <billcu1 verizon net>]

> You don't really use pkg-config directly; the configure scripts for
> what you're installing use it.  You merely provide some external
> direction for it.
>
> Basic idea:  packages provided pkg-config files (for example, gtk
> +-2.0.pc).  These files tell pkg-config how to tell the build system
> for another package how to build and link against the first package.
> Now, to find those files, pkg-config must know where they are.
> They're installed to $PREFIX/pkgconfig by packages.  So, if glib is
> installed in /opt/gtk2, and you want to link GTK against that glib,
> you'd run GTK's configure script like so:
>
> $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/gtk2/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" ./
> configure <configure args as normal>
>
> thereby setting the environment variable on the command line.
> Optionally, you can set it in your .bashrc, .bash_profile, or
> whatever the initialization script for your shell is.
>
> - Michael
>
> P.S.  Hit Reply to All rather than Reply to keep the discussion on
> the list and avoid the problem Tor's brought to your attention.

    Ok I used reply all this time. :) The options at compile time that I
ususally use is really only --prefix=/usr maybe some other switches
with --x-includes if that option is available. I tried compiling all this
stuff without XFree and I don't think it worked because I'm assuming XFree
provides frame buffer support. I want to compile xxms and firefox and maybe
work on some basic packages of the gnome desktop.

Bill