[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/INSTALL,v

[Jan Djärv]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Jan Djärv <jhd>        06/12/08 07:19:16

Index: INSTALL
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.116
retrieving revision 1.117
diff -u -b -r1.116 -r1.117
--- INSTALL     5 Dec 2006 05:34:22 -0000       1.116
+++ INSTALL     8 Dec 2006 07:19:16 -0000       1.117
@@ -383,6 +383,16 @@
 switch to the compiler, and link against libfoo.a and libbar.a
 libraries in addition to the standard ones.
 
+For some libraries, like Gtk+, fontconfig and ALSA, `configure' use 
+pkg-config to find where those libraries are installed. 
+If you wan't pkg-config to look in special directories, you have to set 
+the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directories 
+where the .pc-files for those libraries are.
+For example:
+
+ PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/usr/local/alsa/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gtk+-2.8/lib/pkgconfig' \
+   ./configure
+
 The work of `configure' can be done by editing various files in the
 distribution, but using `configure' is easier.  See the section called
 "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the configuration