--atleast-pkgconfig-version widely misused

Enrico Weigelt weigelt at metux.de
Tue Aug 24 18:17:43 PDT 2010


* jcupitt at gmail.com <jcupitt at gmail.com> schrieb:
> Martin Unsal wrote:
> > I ran into this problem doing something like this:
> >
> > PKG_CONFIG="/usr/bin/pkg-config --define-variable=prefix=/foo/bar"
> > ./configure
> >
> > ... which does not function as expected and I believe is a perfectly
> > reasonable thing to expect to do with pkg-config and configure!
> 
> I've just been bitten by this bug as well. In case anyone doesn't
> figure it out, one workaround is to do:
> 
>    PKG_CONFIG="/usr/bin/pkg-config --define-variable prefix=/foo/bar"
>    ./configure

aehm, you want to get yourself a bloody nose ? ;-o


cu
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