How to include additional directories when configuring makefiles
<p>I'm trying to compile geany-plugins-1.28. The debugger plugin (the only one I need) gives the error: </p>

<pre><code>debug.c:53:21: fatal error: vte/vte.h: No such file or directory
#include &lt;vte/vte.h&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Clearly it needs to know where this file is located to compile. I found the vte.h file in the src directory of the main program geany-1.28. When running </p>

<pre><code>sudo ./configure cflags=-I/home/pi/Desktop/geany-1.28/src
</code></pre>

<p>I get the same error about the missing header later trying to compile the debugger plugin. </p>

<p>I ran</p>

<pre><code>./configure --help 
</code></pre>

<p>to get all the flag options. The output is <a href="http://pastebin.com/iZUkW6C3" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>

<p>How do I get this to configure correctly so that it compiles. I need to compile the debugger version 1.28 myself because apt only installs 1.24 which I think has a bug because it crashes when I run my code with the error:</p>

<pre><code>close failed in file object destructor:
sys.execpthook is missing
lost sys.stderr
</code></pre>