[plug] PKG_CONFIG_PATH

[Richard Meyer]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 17:09 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> 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
> 
Sounds right to me, Batman ....  ;-)
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