Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:20:03 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: <200407151620.i6FGK3Fq074339@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 20:13:37 +0400
> V čt, 15. 07. 2004 v 17:59, Konstantin Oznobihin píše:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Existing behavior gives us a lever to force people to patch their ports
> and conform to hierarchy. If we would allow both /lib and /libdata, how
> many port maintainers do you think would bother to patch lib->libdata?
>
> Changing the location of .pc file is usually a one-line patch to
> Makefile.in
Well, if it is just a one-line patch then I think that most of
maintainers first or last will done it. I want to notice however that
impossibility to use pkgconfig does not creates any problems to the
maintainers of such ports, this situation hinders those who rely on them
(e.g. lang/ruby18 which depends on openssl).
--
Konstantin Oznobihin <bork@rsu.ru>
Systems programmer and administrator
Computer Center of Rostov State University.
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