From cbc7eec2e5df1686db7e301627f9772cf4e2e080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tollef Fog Heen Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 21:47:38 +0200 Subject: Document how to build with circular build-deps. Freedesktop #37266 --- README | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index cb3c345..d31e711 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ flags when compiling/linking a lot easier. Report bugs at http://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/ - To use pkg-config, do something like the following in your configure.ac PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GNOME], [gtk > 1.2.8 gnomeui >= 1.2.0]) @@ -31,4 +30,13 @@ for any version of gnomeui. For more info, there's even a man page, try 'man pkg-config' +Building +======== +To build pkg-config, you need glib installed already. Note that glib +build-depends on pkg-config, but you can just set the corresponding +environment variables (ZLIB_LIBS, ZLIB_CFLAGS are the only needed ones +when this is written) to build it. +pkg-config also either needs an earlier version of itself to find glib +or you need to set GLIB_CFLAGS and GLIB_LIBS to the correct values for +where it's installed in your system. -- cgit v1.2.1