Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:30:31 GMT From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/69093: [patch] devel/pkgconfig does not search for .pc files in libdir/pkgconfig Message-ID: <200407151630.i6FGUVKb074649@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/69093; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
To: Konstantin Oznobihin <bork@rsu.ru>
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 18:22:34 +0200
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V =E8t, 15. 07. 2004 v 18:13, Konstantin Oznobihin p=ED=B9e:
> > > > 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 f=
iles
> > > > under lib/, indirectly executed binaries under libexec/, non-execut=
able
> > > > stuff under libdata/". I'm not sure we want to drop this feature, t=
aking
> > > > the effort we put into it in past.
> > >=20
> > > 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 Free=
BSD
> > > rules. Also, I think that looking for things other than shared librar=
ies
> > > in lib would not be a big violation of FreeBSD rules, especially if t=
his
> > > behavior complies with rules of the paticular software.
> >=20
> > 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?
> >=20
> > 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).
OpenSSL is special, because it's part of base system. OpenSSL in base
does not come with .pc file at all! And there is a special OpenSSL
framework in ports, hidden behind USE_OPENSSL knob, which account for
various combinations of base and port OpenSSL.
I agree that security/openssl port should install openssl.pc into
libdata/pkgconfig, and I believe dinoex@FreeBSD.org (maintainer of
openssl port) will welcome and apply patches in this regard.
--=20
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
Thank God we're theoretical physicists so we don't have to get our
hands dirty with particle accelerators and other heavy machinery.
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