On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Kevin Lamonte <kevin.lamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > End-users wanting the X11 version right now can also pass "--with-x > --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/" to configure (might be different > path based on distro, this is what I use on Debian). Making this behavior > default would be nice. >
For me, the easiest way to find libraries on my system is to use pkg-config. It's also part of the freedesktop standard ( http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ ). I'm using it in the pdcurses makefile for SDL2. With pkg-config, it doesn't matter where a distribution chooses to place libraries, the .pc file holds the correct location. Not every library has a related .pc file (although many do). I typically create .pc files for any libraries that don't already have them. It makes it very easy to switch locations of libraries or to switch between SDL and SDL2. It's a simple, standard way for build scripts to locate libraries. If you're not thrilled with all the dependencies required to build the gnu version of pkg-config, you can use pkgconf ( https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf ). It's a drop-in replacement for pkg-config.
