Re: Difficult compilation setup for nonstandard paths

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <address@hidden> writes:

 KG> Right now, I set the environment variables C_INCLUDE_PATH and
 KG> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the right directories, and CFLAGS gets
 KG> the appropriate -I options, and LDFLAGS gets -L and -R options.

That looks redundant.  Why do you need the compiler variables and the
make variables?

Specifying LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS works generally, not just with gcc and
also with other GNU packages.  How exactly is complicating a specific
configure more useful in this case?  I don't see it.