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Update configure script hints wrt precious env vars.

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* README: Don't suggest setting vars before running configure.
Instead, suggest specifying them on the configure command-line.

Signed-off-by: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
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Thien-Thi Nguyen 2010-01-09 10:07:48 +01:00 • committed by Andy Wingo
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@ -50,16 +50,19 @@ names (where that is supported), makes it impossible to later move the
built executables and libraries to an installation location other than
the one that was specified at build time.
Another possible approach is to set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS before
running configure, so that they include -I options for all the
Another possible approach is to set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS on the
configure command-line, so that they include -I options for all the
non-standard places where you have installed header files and -L
options for all the non-standard places where you have installed
libraries. This will allow configure and make to find those headers
and libraries during the build. The locations found will not be
hardcoded into the build executables and libraries, so with this
approach you will probably also need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
correspondingly, to allow Guile to find the necessary libraries again
at runtime.
and libraries during the build. E.g.:
../configure [...] CPPFLAGS='-I/my/include' LDFLAGS='-L/my/lib'
The locations found will not be hardcoded into the build executables and
libraries, so with this approach you will probably also need to set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH correspondingly, to allow Guile to find the necessary
libraries again at runtime.
Required External Packages ================================================
@ -93,8 +96,8 @@ Guile requires the following external packages:
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:
.pc file, you can work around this by setting some variables as
part of the configure command-line:
- PKG_CONFIG=true