Not Installing to a default location

[kaarthikeyapreyan]

While installing pango ...I installed glib on a non standard location /home/preyan/glib
what are the influential variables
I complied it from the source

./configure --prefix =/home/preyan/glib
make
make install

everything was good
and when pango is configured it is not able to find it
do i have to set anything if so to what path

[i92guboj]

While installing pango ...I installed glib on a non standard location /home/preyan/glib
what are the influential variables
I complied it from the source

./configure --prefix =/home/preyan/glib
make
make install

everything was good
and when pango is configured it is not able to find it
do i have to set anything if so to what path

Use ./configure --help on the pango build dir to find which parameter do you need to set a custom path for glib (that's assuming that pango has the standard build method, otherwise, you will have to check the README files).

[kaarthikeyapreyan]

Isnt this issue related to the package configuration finder,which is not able to find my glib,for which I have set the PATH variable in the .bashrc file

[i92guboj]

Isnt this issue related to the package configuration finder,which is not able to find my glib,for which I have set the PATH variable in the .bashrc file

Lib directories usually don't have anything to do with $PATH.

And yes, it's -probably- your ./configure not being able to locate the correct dir. That is WHY you can set up them by hand: because automatic configuration scripts can't always guest the correct paths.

Run ./configure --help, look for the pertinent parameter, and specify it on command line. Note that you might need to set more than one (i.e. one for libs and another for headers). I never compiled pango by hand so I don't know.

And read it's documentation if in doubt.

[valan]

Since you installed to a non default location, you need to set up 2 things. First off, you will probably want to add $PREFIX/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf or $LD_CONFIG_PATH so the linker doesn't get lost trying to find the libs. Second, and probably more important, you will need to add $PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig to $PKG_CONFIG_PATH in order to build other things which use pkg-config, such as pango and many gui apps.