make giving errors while installing atk-2.12.0 in non standard directory
 

This is the error:-
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/sklinux/extract/atk-2.12.0'
Making all in atk
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/user/sklinux/extract/atk-2.12.0/atk'
GEN stamp-atkmarshal.h
/bin/sh: glib-genmarshal: command not found
make[2]: *** [stamp-atkmarshal.h] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/sklinux/extract/atk-2.12.0/atk'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/sklinux/extract/atk-2.12.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I wanted to install software but I did not have root password
After searching a lot I found that I can install softwares in a different place than default
The software which I wanted to install required gtk+ .
gtk+ required glib and atk-2.12.0 and other softwares
I installed glib in /home/user/sklinux/linux by compiling from source and using make and make install
Then I ran ./configure (in atk's folder) with --prefix=/home/user/sklinux/linux
but it gave error that glib is not installed and that if it is installed specify the directory of some file in by PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable
finally it gave another error
then finally this command did it successfully

./configure --prefix=/home/user/sklinux/linux/ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/user/sklinux/linux/lib/pkgconfig LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/user/sklinux/linux/lib/

I understand that glib-genmarshal is in /home/user/sklinux/linux/bin and not in /bin/sh which is the cause of error.

How do i tell the same to my computer??

Please help me as fast as possible.

Not correct. /bin/sh isn't a directory.

You need to make sure /home/user/sklinux/linux/bin is in your PATH. Prepend it, so the glib you have installed locally is picked up before the system version.

Thank you very much.
It solved the problem.
Does this command look for binaries in local directory before going to /bin?
and was it looking in /bin(not in /bin/sh)

Here's a discussion of the PATH env variable --> http://www.linfo.org/path_env_var.html. Lot's more free information available on the internet. Good luck.