[cairo] Making configure error message more clear

Arjen Nienhuis a.g.nienhuis at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 13:15:33 PDT 2010


> Below is an exchange I recently had with a new user trying to use cairo
> who got this error and followed its advice, (browsed to the URL, found
> pixman, downloaded it, installed it to the default /usr/local/). But the
> user still got the same message, and never knew to adjust the
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

Why isn't PKG_CONFIG_PATH set to $PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig by default?


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