[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 402236] GST_CHECK_LIBHEADER can't see libraries installed outside /usr/lib

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

If you have any questions why you received this email, please see the text at
the end of this email. Replies to this email are NOT read, please see the text
at the end of this email. You can add comments to this bug at:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402236

  GStreamer | gst-universe | Ver: HEAD CVS




------- Comment #5 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2007-05-18 17:36 UTC -------
> Both are using GST_CHECK_LIBHEADER to find needed header/libraries so I
> suspect that this macro is broken and ignore PATH and/or --prefix option.

I just had a look and all GST_CHECK_LIBHEADER() really does is call
AC_CHECK_LIB() and then AC_CHECK_HEADER(). I find it hard to believe that those
are broken in this respect.

It seems more likely to me that the jhbuild environment doesn't set the right
environment variables for this, whatever they are (LIBRARY_PATH? LDFLAGS?), but
then, jhbuild is made for the particular purpose to do builds into another
prefix, so it also seems a bit hard to believe it doesn't get this right as
well (unless all other dependencies use .pc files already ...)

(found this:
http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.autoconf.general/2004-08/msg00041.html)


-- 
See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=email.html for more info about why you received
this email, why you can't respond via email, how to stop receiving
emails (or reduce the number you receive), and how to contact someone
if you are having problems with the system.

You can add comments to this bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402236.