rtorrent local install

[lyp]

Thanks to http://www.howtoforge.com/compile-rtorrent-from-svn-ubuntu-8.04-hardy-heron I know all the dependencies to install rtorrent. But I save system installs for aptitude and manual compilations are local.

Compiling libtorrent works fine, rtorrent does not. It seems it can't find the libtorrent files.

This is my configure line:
libtorrent_CFLAGS=/home/user/utils/rtorrent/include/ libtorrent_LIBS=/home/user/utils/rtorrent/lib/ ./configure --prefix=/home/user/utils/rtorrent/ --includedir=/home/user/utils/rtorrent/include/ --libdir=/home/user/utils/rtorrent/lib/

(also tried without the --includedir and --libdir)

but it still won't compile. The first error is:
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I. -I./.. -I../.. -g -O2 -g -DDEBUG -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include /home/user/utils/rtorrent/include/ -MT curl_get.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/curl_get.Tpo -c -o curl_get.o curl_get.cc
curl_get.cc:42:32: error: torrent/exceptions.h: No such file or directory


I notice there is no -I before my local include dir so I tried the g++ line myself with the -I and it worked. So is the make file not being written right? What do I do?

Thanks!

[falko]

You can use apt-file to find the missing package: http://www.howtoforge.com/apt_file_debian_ubuntu

[lyp]

Thanks for trying to help. The actual solution was to use $PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

[sjau]

never done a local install :) feel free to write an extensive howto on that :)