compiling glib with non-standard paths

Question

I am trying to compile glib-2.32.1, therefore I installed libffi-3.0.1 into the following path:

~/localroot/lib/

and the header files are in:

~/localroot/lib/libffi-3.0.11/include/

However, when I do configure:

~/tmp/build_alot/glib-2.32.1 $ ./configure --prefix=~/localroot

I see the following error:

checking whether to cache iconv descriptors... no
checking for ZLIB... yes
checking for LIBFFI... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libffi >= 3.0.0) were not met:

No package 'libffi' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBFFI_CFLAGS
and LIBFFI_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

What are the correct values that I need to set for LIBFFI_LIBS and LIBFFI_CFLAGS in order to successfully compile glib?

tiny bit of extra info:

When I compiled libffi I got the following helpful info:

Libraries have been installed in: /home/nahum/localroot/lib

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
   - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
     during execution
   - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
     during linking
   - use the `-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
   - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'

See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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test -z "/home/user/localroot/share/info" || /bin/mkdir -p "/home/user/localroot/share/info"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../doc/libffi.info '/home/nahum/localroot/share/info'
 install-info --info-dir='/home/user/localroot/share/info' '/home/user/localroot/share/info/libffi.info'
test -z "/home/user/localroot/lib/pkgconfig" || /bin/mkdir -p "/home/user/localroot/lib/pkgconfig"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libffi.pc '/home/user/localroot/lib/pkgconfig'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/user/tmp/build_alot/libffi-3.0.11/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/tmp/build_alot/libffi-3.0.11/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/tmp/build_alot/libffi-3.0.11/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'

Setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /home/user/localroot/lib/pkgconfig still does not bring success.

Answer 1

on the way to enlightenment...

I managed to compile glib with:

export LIBFFI_CFLAGS=-I/home/user/localroot/lib/libffi-3.0.11/include
export LIBFFI_LIBS="-L/home/user/localroot/lib -lffi"

Now I have to see if the dependencies down the road are all happy with how I compiled it.