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Date:      Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:33:53 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrea Pappacoda <andrea@pappacoda.it>
Cc:        Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org>, Alex Dupre <sysadmin@alexdupre.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pkg-config and share/
Message-ID:  <20220729073353.mp3ztbnzyeif4zv7@aniel.nours.eu>
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Andrea Pappacoda wrote:
> Il giorno lun 25 lug 2022 alle 15:56:12 +02:00:00, Andrea Pappacoda
> <andrea@pappacoda.it> ha scritto:
> > > what is
> > > fundamentally different from share/pkgconfig and libdata/pkgconfig
> > > =7Fbeside the
> > > name of the directory?
> >=20
> > I guess the difference is in the meaning of the two locations. If a .pc
> > file is in share/ you can be sure it can be used for cross compilation,
> > as share/ only contains arch-independent stuff. And if it is in
> > libdata/? Maybe, I can't know, it could be either arch-specific or
> > arch-independent.
>=20
> Hi Bapt, sorry to ping this thread, but I think I forgot to specify my
> intents clearly.
>=20
> Given the usefulness of using share/pkgconfig/, and the fact that pkgconf
> upstream and many different OSes use that directory too, would you consid=
er
> making your pkgconf honour that directory too?
>=20
> If not, could you please point me to where I should go / who should I ask=
 to
> make the Ports system move .pc files from share/ to libdata/? As Daniel
> (diizzy) mentioned, it seems that currently only files from lib/ are moved
> to libdata/.
>=20
> If you're not convinced of share/'s usefulness, please pay this thread a
> visit: https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus/pull/165
>=20
> Thanks for your time!
>=20
>=20

What is interesting is: I am the second contributor to the pkgconf project,=
 we
were iirc the first big project to entirely switch to pkgconf and we never =
ever
needed share/pkgconfig, after digging back in history I can see it was there
since forever, and when I performed the switch from pkg-config to pkgconf a=
nd
never ever reintroduced anything but libdata/pkgconfig (our equivalent of
lib/pkgconfig), so this would be the first use case.

And yes the auto population of libdata/pkgconfig is done by moving the files
=66rom lib/pkgconfig not moving the files from share/pkgconfig.

I will add support for share/pkgconfig asap.

Thank for the pointer.

Best regards,
Bapt



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