Re: GTK build crashes under X

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
> > Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:55:06 +0100
> > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Henrik Enberg <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.
>
> Alas, I couldn't find any documentation of the *.pc files' format, so
> that I could edit the files.

It is in the man page for pkg-config.

> > pkg-config needs some kind of --use or --override switch so 
> > we could do this easier.
>
> Indeed.  As things are now, it looks like the maintainers of
> pkg-config didn't _want_ you to have the freedom to point it to the
> non-default installation directories.

Its origin is form the Gnome project after all...

        Jan D.