Is PKG_CONFIG_PATH being ignored by pkg-config in some circumstances?

Dan Nicholson nicholson at endlessm.com
Thu May 21 17:26:17 PDT 2015


On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> I had to debug a mysterious problem like that recently; it was caused
> by a missing package.
>
> strace -e trace=file  was very helpful for seeing what pkgconfig was doing.


You can also try running "pkg-config --debug --exists cairo" to see
exactly what pkg-config is trying to do. What you're doing should be
supported.

--
Dan


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