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| author | Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> | 2010-01-09 10:07:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2010-01-13 20:46:20 +0100 |
| commit | e744e076fae41492fb990bc32594d9daf2908094 (patch) | |
| tree | a6edf6d7f951de31bdf6641e43564a1c58ef07eb /README | |
| parent | 6ea3048785915947a24305f0cff88f7b903182a0 (diff) | |
Update configure script hints wrt precious env vars.
* README: Don't suggest setting vars before running configure.
Instead, suggest specifying them on the configure command-line.
Signed-off-by: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 21 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -50,16 +50,19 @@ names (where that is supported), makes it impossible to later move the built executables and libraries to an installation location other than the one that was specified at build time. -Another possible approach is to set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS before -running configure, so that they include -I options for all the +Another possible approach is to set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS on the +configure command-line, so that they include -I options for all the non-standard places where you have installed header files and -L options for all the non-standard places where you have installed libraries. This will allow configure and make to find those headers -and libraries during the build. The locations found will not be -hardcoded into the build executables and libraries, so with this -approach you will probably also need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH -correspondingly, to allow Guile to find the necessary libraries again -at runtime. +and libraries during the build. E.g.: + + ../configure [...] CPPFLAGS='-I/my/include' LDFLAGS='-L/my/lib' + +The locations found will not be hardcoded into the build executables and +libraries, so with this approach you will probably also need to set +LD_LIBRARY_PATH correspondingly, to allow Guile to find the necessary +libraries again at runtime. Required External Packages ================================================ @@ -93,8 +96,8 @@ Guile requires the following external packages: Guile's ./configure script uses pkg-config to discover the correct compile and link options for libgc. 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 environment - variables before running ./configure: + .pc file, you can work around this by setting some variables as + part of the configure command-line: - PKG_CONFIG=true |