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| author | Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> | 2006-12-08 07:19:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> | 2006-12-08 07:19:16 +0000 |
| commit | 1f29c85ca99c9f4c9afcd6def6864a075e542fe7 (patch) | |
| tree | 89bbfe14a41eee601b149dff6bb9672e13d26fd0 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 7575009055af7bdef9aa286a0112ee6b39fe14b0 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-1f29c85ca99c9f4c9afcd6def6864a075e542fe7.tar.gz | |
(DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION): Document usage
of PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
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@@ -383,6 +383,16 @@ to look in `/bar/mylib' for libraries, pass the -O3 optimization switch to the compiler, and link against libfoo.a and libbar.a libraries in addition to the standard ones. +For some libraries, like Gtk+, fontconfig and ALSA, `configure' use +pkg-config to find where those libraries are installed. +If you wan't pkg-config to look in special directories, you have to set +the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directories +where the .pc-files for those libraries are. +For example: + + PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/usr/local/alsa/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gtk+-2.8/lib/pkgconfig' \ + ./configure + The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the distribution, but using `configure' is easier. See the section called "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the configuration |