Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:10:37 GMT From: Konstantin Oznobihin <bork@rsu.ru> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/69093: [patch] devel/pkgconfig does not search for .pc files in libdir/pkgconfig Message-ID: <200407151610.i6FGAbra073579@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/69093; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Konstantin Oznobihin <bork@rsu.ru>
To: pav@FreeBSD.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/69093: [patch] devel/pkgconfig does not search for .pc
files in libdir/pkgconfig
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:59:00 +0400
> V čt, 15. 07. 2004 v 17:09, Konstantin Oznobihin píše:
>
> > > > Well, it is the /usr/ports/devel/pkgconfig
> > >
> > > I see. pkg-config is already checking /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/*.pc,
> > > /usr/X11R6/libdata/pkgconfig/*.pc and ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig/*.pc
> > >
> > > If there is some port that installs *.pc files somewhere else, like to
> > > ${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig, it's the other port what must be fixed, not
> > > pkg-config.
>
> > pkg-config checks libdata/pkgconfig instead of lib/pkgconfig due to
> > patches in the current devel/pkgconfig port, only this patches requires
> > other ported software (which depends on pkgconfig) to use libdata
> > instead of lib. IMHO, it is bug in port of pkgconfig not in other ports.
>
> Depends on point of view. You call it a bug, we call it a feature. It
> was deliberately added to our port of pkgconfig three years ago. It cost
> us a lot of effort to keep up with it since. It help pkgconfig to
> conform to FreeBSD hierarchy rules, which say "only shared binary files
> under lib/, indirectly executed binaries under libexec/, non-executable
> stuff under libdata/". I'm not sure we want to drop this feature, taking
> the effort we put into it in past.
I am definitely not want you to drop this feature. As you can see my
patch just adds ${PREFIX}/lib to the existing list of directories. I
agree that when it is possible we should make ports conform with FreeBSD
rules. Also, I think that looking for things other than shared libraries
in lib would not be a big violation of FreeBSD rules, especially if this
behavior complies with rules of the paticular software.
--
Konstantin Oznobihin <bork@rsu.ru>
Systems programmer and administrator
Computer Center of Rostov State University.
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