Re: Trying now with 1.1 cvs.

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:26:54PM -0400, Jacob (Jack) Gryn wrote:
> I deleted the transcode directory completely and redownloaded the latest 1.1
> CVS.
> 
> I did see the difference in that I no longer needed to fix the ffmpeg paths
> time.  
> 
> I realized that I didn't have PKG_CONFIG_PATH set.  
> 
> Now, I tried setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH; it configured and compiled on the
> first try.
> 
> Any chance these fixes can be applied in such a way that the average user
> won't require the path to be set?  For users who aren't developers or
> experienced sysadmins, they won't necessarily know that LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH need to be set, or what paths to set them to. 
> 
> In case it helps anyone in the future to have this on records, in Fedora
> Core 5 on x86_64, I used the following defaults: 
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkg
> config:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib64:/usr/lib64:/usr/local/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/
> lib

this is the problem.  LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, etc are OS
dependent.  as such, the OS is supposed to be setting these properly.
adding this to transcode's, or any third party's, configure script
becomes a mess, quickly.

OTOH, mentioning the specifics for certain OSes kinda makes sense
for the wiki, or maybe even install docs.

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