[MPlayer-users] compiling with locally installed library

[Robert Henney]

I have a very basic compiling question.  I have installed a local copy
of the mpg123 library and I want to compile mplayer against that instead
of the system one.  I tried the following before running ./configure
but I'm guessing that method isn't supported as it appeared to be
ignored.

  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/local/lib/pkgconfig

what's the proper way to do this?