[gst-devel] issue of building mad plugin in gst-plugins-0.8.11

[Tim Müller]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 18:12 -0700, rong wang wrote:

> When I tried to build and enable mad plugin, the first
> thing I run ./configure, but it complains that
> -lmad not found, means it didn't find the library, I
> checked the help info from configure, I cannot find a
> choice to let me set the path to the include and
> library, but for other plugins, there are option
> -with-ogg-libraries etc, 
> 
> Please tell me how could I get my libmad path to
> "configure"?

% export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/foo/bar/lib
% ./configure

should make it look in /foo/bar/lib for a library as well. For
pkg-config based packages there is also

% export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/foo/bar/lib/pkgconfig

Cheers
 -Tim