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or likewise within Emacs using `setenv`.
After that, compilation should proceed as normal.
-**** Compiling on FreeBSD
- Although not officially suppported, it has been reported that
- pdf-tools work well on FreeBSD. Install the dependencies with
+**** FreeBSD
+ Although not officially supported, it has been reported that
+ pdf-tools work well on FreeBSD. Instead of building pdf-tools, you
+ can install one of the OS packages with, e.g.
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+ $ pkg install pdf-tools-emacs25
+#+END_SRC
+ To see the current list of pdf-tools packages for FreeBSD visit
+ [[https://repology.org/metapackages/?search=pdf-tools&inrepo=freebsd][the Repology list]].
+
+ To build pdf-tools from either melpa or directly from the source
+ repository, install the dependencies with
#+BEGIN_SRC sh
$ pkg install autotools gmake poppler-glib
#+END_SRC