> > Maybe we should have a short snippet in our wiki with > what are appropriate > > environment variables, which ones to avoid, and what > is appropriate for > > CXX/CFLAGS? > > Good idea! At least make mention of this problematic > variable, as it took > quite a while (and a couple of bug reports) for both of us > to even begin > to figure out what was going on. ;-) I can add a snippet about the CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH variable, but I don't the root cause of why the variable causes pkg-config to gag. I'm nowhere close to being qualifed to write something about CXX/CFLAGS. Somebody else (not you) should provide a paragraph addressing those variables. I don't know where to begin with respect to addressing other variables. Perhaps if several people here add their two cents or euros to what they use and what they avoid I then could massage that information into something useful. :) Darrell