[Clfs-dev] Pango 32-bit build fails

[Joe Ciccone]

db m wrote:
>
> There's a number of these, where environment variables are thrown up
> like above, as a prefix to configure, which *should* result in a
> correct library
> path (pkgconfig path, gcc build..), but it seems this isn't always the
> case. I've
> redressed a few already, but there's no doubt more in the wiki wherein you
> have to state the intention as an export (ie; export USE_ARCH=32 as
> opposed to including it on the configure line). There appears to be
> multiple
> reasons for this, I believe the most of which are caused by a makefile in
> certain packages which call in other helper apps (xmkmf, perl, others...)
> during the make process, at which time the environment variables sent
> to configure are unset and the (generated makefiles..) have no way to
> pass the variables onto the helper apps on which the build relies.....or
> something like this....
Correct, but I seriously doubt this is the case with pango, since
everything happens during the configure stage. The problem is most
likely with xmkmf itself.