How to build from source

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My question is actually related to the Coin-OR framework in general, although Clp is one of the dependencies for the project(Symphony) that I'm trying to build. I'm on a fairly recent Oracle Linux distro(basically Red Hat) with a 5.4 kernel. I don't understand how I'm supposed to build all the dependencies of a particular project and manage versioning. The instructions are a bit vague on this:

Without coinbrew (Expert users)
Download the source code, e.g., by cloning the git repo https://github.com/coin-or/SYMPHONY
Download and install the source code for the dependencies listed in config.yml
Build the code as follows (make sure to set PKG_CONFIG_PTH to install directory for dependencies).
./configure -C
make
make test
make install

Can I build and install the dependencies, including Cgl, using coinbrew? If so, how do I set PKG_CONFIG_PTH? Coinbrew just built & installed each dependency inside a couple of folders called "dist" and "build". When I tried setting PKG_CONFIG_PTH appropriately(SYMPHONY-releases-5.6.18), it didn't affect the configure script at all. I also tried manually setting the command line parameters of the configure script as follows:

./configure --enable-static --enable-sensitivity-analysis=yes --with-osi-incdir="/home/opc/dist/include/coin/" --with-osi-lib="/home/opc/build/Osi/0.108.7/src/Osi/libOsi.la" --with-osi-datadir="/home/opc/build/Osi/" --with-cgl-incdir="/home/opc/dist/include/coin/" --with-cgl-lib="/home/opc/build/Cgl/0.60.4/src/libCgl.la" --with-clp-incdir="/home/opc/dist/include/coin/" --with-clp-lib="/home/opc/build/Clp/1.17/src/libClpSolver.la /home/opc/build/Clp/1.17/src/libClp.la" --with-coinutils-incdir="/home/opc/dist/include/coin/" --with-coinutils-lib="/home/opc/build/CoinUtils/master/CoinUtils/src/libCoinUtils.la" --with-coinutils-datadir="/home/opc/build/CoinUtils"

but the script failed midway saying "configure: error: Required package CoinUtils or Osi not available."