/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ .pc files I've never heard of these things before and I can't find any docs how to edit them correctly. I was trying to install a program called selectwn-0.4 which is suppose to allow you to change window managers easily, but it won't install since it can't 'see' GLIB >= 2.0.0 Selectwn-0.4 says to 'edit' my pkgconfig files, specifically glib.pc. I installed the required GTK library, glib-2.0.6.tar.gz, and mucked about with glib.pc but it didn't work.. Has anyone out there ever edited one of these? Is it even a good idea to mess with them? I thought app programs where suppose to 'find' stuff by looking in the PATH in .bash_profile. Here is my original glib.pc for GLib-1.2
prefix=/usr exec_prefix=/usr libdir=/usr/lib includedir=/usr/include
Name: GLib Description: C Utility Library Version: 1.2.10 Libs: -L${libdir} -lglib Cflags: -I${includedir}/glib-1.2 -I${libdir}/glib/include
The upgrade version to glib is in /usr/local/glib-2.0.6 I created a directory /usr/include/glib-2.0.6 put gmodule.h and gmodule.h version 2.0.6 in it. /usr/local/glib-2.0.6 has at least 6 .pc files, none of which have been transferred to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ Should I put them there (Y/N)? I thought all this kind of stuff was suppose to be done automatically when installing libraries in the Linux these days. Somehow, I think I've made things worse. Anybody got any good advice?