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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2012-01-16 22:17:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2012-01-16 22:17:50 +0100 |
| commit | ad17b1551241a0fbaa9f9557016cbe440cc6338b (patch) | |
| tree | 44e4763b97ef80c51db68a98a280359f12e2dec0 | |
| parent | bbd210517f12fdabb51e0dc2527ba186bb1ba549 (diff) | |
| download | guile-ad17b1551241a0fbaa9f9557016cbe440cc6338b.tar.gz | |
Improve wording in README regarding `pkg-config'.
* README: Mention $PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and make it clear that $BDW_GC_LIBS,
etc. aren't normally needed.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -93,10 +93,15 @@ Guile requires the following external packages: - pkg-config Guile's ./configure script uses pkg-config to discover the correct - compile and link options for libgc and libffi. If you don't have - pkg-config installed, or you have a version of libgc that doesn't - provide a .pc file, you can work around this by setting some - variables as part of the configure command-line: + compile and link options for libgc and libffi. For this to work, + the `PKG_CONFIG_PATH' environment variable must be set to point to + the places where libgc's and libffi's `.pc' files can be found: + + PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/libgc/lib/pkgconfig:/path/to/libffi/lib/pkgconfig + + Alternatively, when pkg-config is not installed, you can work around + this by setting some variables as part of the configure + command-line: - PKG_CONFIG=true |