[plug] PKG_CONFIG_PATH

[Gavin Chester]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 17:56 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> 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 ....  ;-)

Thanks Guys.  Phew :-)

Gavin