[plug] PKG_CONFIG_PATH

[Timothy White]

On 11/24/06, Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
> I can't tell whether I accidentally trashed my existing PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> settings when trying to export some new directories to its list :-(  Is
> this likely, and if so is there a way to recover it without having to
> manually know all directories and export them again?
>
> Trouble is, when I enter 'echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH' in one console I get a
> different output to doing the same in another console :-/  Isn't the
> whole thing of exporting it meant to make it stick or is it only good
> for the current console session?

It's only for the same session. To make it permanent, you need to put
it in a bashrc style file.

Well, at least I think that's right.

Tim

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