RE: Trying now with 1.1 cvs.

It seems to me that FC5 doesn't set these variables at all. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Meuser [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 4:19 PM
> To: 'transcode Developers Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [transcode-devel] 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/li
> b/pkg
> > config:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> >
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib64:/usr/lib64:/usr/local/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/l
> ocal/
> > 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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