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| author | Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> | 2009-12-19 22:37:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> | 2009-12-19 22:37:24 +0000 |
| commit | ef73663576c54d04bd9f1dfe1cdf587515e5cc71 (patch) | |
| tree | c6d6300dfab706a097b49693a184d3eb16c5700a /README | |
| parent | 3733df073f5b0cca088b779a26a71a4618ececcb (diff) | |
Document need for pkg-config to build Guile
* README: Say that ./configure needs pkg-config; why; and how to work
around it.
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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -88,6 +88,20 @@ Guile requires the following external packages: conservative garbage collector used by Guile. It is available from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ . + - pkg-config + + 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: + + - PKG_CONFIG=true + + - BDW_GC_CFLAGS=<compile flags for picking up libgc headers> + + - BDW_GC_LIBS=<linker flags for picking up the libgc library> + Special Instructions For Some Systems ===================================== |