> Am I misunderstanding something about the changes to the configure > script?
Nope. All the environment variable nonsense was just broken, and the script was modernized to rely on pkgconfig for locating everything. All of the dependencies should have pkgconfig support, but there are plenty of operating systems that botch that, which is occasionally a source of trouble if the pc files are missing. They can be added in by hand with PKG_CONFIG_PATH where needed. -- Scott