On Wednesday 07 January 2004 20:33, busmanus wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I've setup an env var $PKG_CONFIG_PATH thats correct, and I reran > >Well, the details are much too complicated for me, but there's >one thing I seem to understand, and this thing is, that it's >a better idea to pass eg. PKG_CONFIG_PATH (or LD_LIBRARY_PATH too) >directly on the ./configure command line, and not to "hardwire" it >in the startup files. An example: > >PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig > ./configure > >I hope that will be of some help. > >busmanus It does sound like a good idea, but that also means I'd have to remember it. Setting the var and exporting it in .bashrc is a one-time deal. For this often forgetfull old codger its a no brainer :-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list