Re: GTK build crashes under X

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
> > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:05:29 +0100
> > From: Henrik Enberg <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>,
> >         address@hidden
> >
> > "PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/dir/with/foo.pc ./configure"
>
> Thanks, but this only works if the package installed privately
> installs foo.pc.  Not every package does, since not every package
> supports pkg-config in its source distribution.

That is true.  A workaround woould be to copy the .pc-file that mentions foo 
to a private directory, edit it to point to your private foo, and then set 
PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  pkg-config needs some kind of --use or --override switch so 
we could do this easier.

        Jan D.