Help with ./configure - cygwin users!

[thinkingtubelite]

I use a windows machine, and am trying to use and run some opensource code which is built on the linux platform. I dl'ed and installed all the required packages of Cygwin (a linux emulator for windows with the shell), so my root directory is \cygdrive\

The thing is, I need to install a package in order to build the source for the software. I downloaded the tar.bz2 file to a directory on my PC under \cygdrive\c\cygwin\ and unpacked it. I then cd to that directory and ran ./configure, make check and make install. Got a message saying "congrats! installation was successful! "

Now comes for the actual source, which depends on this package. I unpacked the tar.bz2 file to another directory on my pc under Cygwin, and 'configured'. However I get an error saying that the previous package was not to be found.
Now, how do i add to the paths to where configure should search for installed packages? Or is there a different way of running configure? Please help!

[coopstah13]

when you ran the ./configure script did you pass the argument --prefix? if not, then it probably installed it into /usr/local instead of in just /usr, and the other thing you are trying to install that depends on it is probably looking for it in /usr, so you need to tell the configure script its located in /usr/local or reinstall the first package passing --prefix=/usr to the configure script