ive enver had to deal wiht this so i dont really know what im doing, im trying to install teh fast track plugin for giFT and it complains,

checking for libgift >= 0.10.0... Package libgift was not found in the pkg-confi
g search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgift.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libgift' found

configure: error: Library requirements (libgift >= 0.10.0) not met; consider adj
usting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonst
andard prefix so pkg-config can find them.


the answer to this in the README is

If you have giFT installed in a non-standard location (according to pkg-config,
you must make sure that PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set to the directory where libgift.pc
is located. Ex. export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/bin (for bash).

giFT is installed in /usr/local/bin/giFT and libs are in /usr/local/lib/giFT what im wondering is, how exactly

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/bin

works,

do i just run that inside the fasttrack directory? or do i have to change it to giFT_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/bin/giFT or something else? sorry if im not makign much sense i need sleep...

Type: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/bin , right before you install the program. It doesn't matter what directory you are in. That choice stays current for that session. So if you open another Terminal, log in as a different user, restart, then that selection is lost and you have to do it again.