From 20f49053fc55a38d2c99a1c7b33948b5baa8011d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Carsten Haitzler (Rasterman)" Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 15:04:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] improve install docs more --- README.md | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2c57610..bb4e252 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -146,12 +146,12 @@ Meson is the build system used for this project. For more information please see [mesonbuild.com](https://mesonbuild.com) You will need normal build tooling installed such as a compiler (gcc -or clang for example), pkg-config, ninja, any relevant pakcage-dev or +or clang for example), pkg-config, ninja, any relevant package-dev or package-devel packages if your distribution splits out development -headers etc. +headers (e.g. libc6-dev) etc. -Depending on where dependencies (like efl), you might have to set your -`PKG_CONFIG_PATH` environment variable like: +Depending on where dependencies (like efl) are installed, you might have to +set your `PKG_CONFIG_PATH` environment variable like: ``` export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig ``` @@ -162,13 +162,14 @@ to your library locations so you might have to have more like: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig ``` -You will need to enusre that the destination library direcytory (e.g. +You will need to enusre that the destination library directory (e.g. `/usr/local/lib` is in your /etc/ld.so.conf or /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ files and after insgtaling anything that installes libraries you -re-run `ldconfig`. +re-run `ldconfig`. Please see relevant documentation on ldconfig and +ld.so.conf for your distribution. You might also want to add the destination bin dir to your environment -variable PATH like: +variable PATH (see documentation on your shell PATH variable) such as: ``` export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin ```