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<para>
Several environment variables are useful to pass to set before
- running configure. <envar>CPPFLAGS</envar> contains options to
- pass to the C compiler, and is used to tell the compiler where
- to look for include files. The <envar>LDFLAGS</envar> variable
- is used in a similar fashion for the linker. Finally the
+ running <application>meson</application>. <envar>CPPFLAGS</envar>
+ contains options to pass to the C compiler, and is used to tell
+ the compiler where to look for include files. The <envar>LDFLAGS</envar>
+ variable is used in a similar fashion for the linker. Finally the
<envar>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</envar> environment variable contains
a search path that <command>pkg-config</command> (see below)
uses when looking for files describing how to compile