[java-gnome-hackers] pkg-config weirdness for an Ubuntu developer

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

There as a thread on the java-gnome-developer mailing list recently
where a fellow had a hard time building us because pkg-config was
failing.

Anyone else with Ubuntu [8.10?] run into this? We don't use that distro
ourselves, so I cannot duplicate...

AfC
Sydney

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Andrew Cowie <an...@op...>
To: jav...@li...
Subject: Re: [Java-gnome-developer] problem with compilation of
java-gnome	4.0.9
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:05:43 +1100

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:38 +0200, federico tramarin wrote:
> The problem was that the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH was not
> set.

Wow. That's weird.

I was of the understanding that /usr/lib/pkgconfig was the default path
that pkg-config had hardwired in at installation time and that it should
look there automatically.

How strange.

Anyone know what sort of circumstances would have led to this situation
for Federico?

[ie, I don't have to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH for pkg-config to work, it just
does]

AfC
Sydney