Re: help compiling gnome-vfs-2.18.1

Hans Petter Jansson <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:46:00 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.vfs.general
Organization	Novell, Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 21:54 -0400, John Goulah wrote:
> I'm trying to get gnome-vfs installed,  I have the apt installed glib
> in /usr/local and my compiled glib-2.14.5 in /usr/local/lib  -- I want
> it to use the latter, how do I force that?   I'm getting:

Try:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

And then configure, clean and make gnome-vfs anew. This pkg-config
mechanism is not unique to gnome-vfs, btw - you'll find most
GNOME-related packages use it.

-- 
Hans Petter