Problem compiling programs

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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On 11/08/2011 12:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I've tried downloading some tarballs and compiling them, without 
> success.  In each case, ./configure complains that it can't find one or 
> more libraries that I have installed.  Checking, it turns out that 
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH isn't set.
> 
> This leads to two questions: what should it be set to and why isn't it set?

Dumb question - did you install the development packages for the
libraries in question? If not, configure will complain that it can
not find the libraries.

Mikkel
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