Re: building against uninstalled Glib

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Baker, Steve" <SBaker CHELLO com> writes:

> When I attempted to build an app against an uninstalled CVS version of Glib,
> I couldn't get the app to compile without making the below changes to the
> *uninstalled.pc.in files (basically removing ${pc_top_builddir}/ from each
> of them).
> 
> Is this change valid? Should it be committed?
> 
> Are there people out there successfully building against an uninstalled Glib
> without this change?

Currently, the -uninstalled-pc stuff _only_ works when the
path you specify in your PKG_CONFIG_PATH is relative.

It's not too hard to fix things to work with absolute 
paths as well, but it needs to be done as a fix to pkg-config.

Regards,
                                        Owen