Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:00:38 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: <200407151800.i6FI0cnj084208@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 21:51:11 +0400 > V čt, 15. 07. 2004 v 18:34, Konstantin Oznobihin píše: > > > > > 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. > > > openssl was just one example, there are exists other ports which do the > > same thing (with .pc files of course :). > > Yes I know, and unless someone go and patch them, they will. I'm > planning to take on them for quite some time, but you know, no free > time. If you need some help I think I can take part of them. Anyway I do not want my patch for pkgconfig be rejected. I seriously doubt that current situation may force ports mantainers to change lib to libdata, as I said it affects those who tries to use pkg-config on such ports. It is not a good idea to put someone else's mistakes on them. -- Konstantin Oznobihin <bork@rsu.ru> Systems programmer and administrator Computer Center of Rostov State University. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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