> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:55:06 +0100 > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [email protected] > >> > >> "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. > 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. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
