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Improve wording in README regarding `pkg-config'.

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* README: Mention $PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and make it clear that $BDW_GC_LIBS,
  etc. aren't normally needed.
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Ludovic Courtès 2012-01-16 22:17:50 +01:00
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@ -93,10 +93,15 @@ Guile requires the following external packages:
- pkg-config - pkg-config
Guile's ./configure script uses pkg-config to discover the correct Guile's ./configure script uses pkg-config to discover the correct
compile and link options for libgc and libffi. If you don't have compile and link options for libgc and libffi. For this to work,
pkg-config installed, or you have a version of libgc that doesn't the `PKG_CONFIG_PATH' environment variable must be set to point to
provide a .pc file, you can work around this by setting some the places where libgc's and libffi's `.pc' files can be found:
variables as part of the configure command-line:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/libgc/lib/pkgconfig:/path/to/libffi/lib/pkgconfig
Alternatively, when pkg-config is not installed, you can work around
this by setting some variables as part of the configure
command-line:
- PKG_CONFIG=true - PKG_CONFIG=true