spurious missing dependency about bear HOT 3 CLOSED

Has nothing to do with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and everything to do with the path that your pkg-config is searching for .pc files on. If you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig it'll probably work without any changes. I'd guess you can also change the default search path when building pkg-config to include where you're installing libraries, but I haven't bothered to try.

None of this is a problem with Bear in my opinion. This is covered in the pkg-config guide:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html

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Quite right -- setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig it all works fine out of the box.

Not sure why that setting needs to be changed, or how I was supposed to know that, but thanks.

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I've sent a pull request (issue #55) which mentions this in the README. This really is just a decision on the part of the pkg-config folks not to include /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig on their default search path. I don't know why they made that choice.

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