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Date:      Sun, 9 May 2004 03:05:29 +0300
From:      Kyryll A Mirnenko <mirya@ukrpost.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: General binary packages issue: pkg-config *.pc has hadcodedbase directory
Message-ID:  <200405090305.29983.mirya@ukrpost.net>
In-Reply-To: <409C0E69.6070705@obsecurity.org>
References:  <20040507135249.0199343D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <409C0E69.6070705@obsecurity.org>

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> >   I use two harddrives & have to split the packages I install between
> > them, so I has 2 default installation bases (/usr/local & /usr/X11R6) and
> > one more for the 2nd drive: /usr2 . I found all packages contain
> > pkg-config congifs (*.pc) hardcoded to package default location, not to
> > the one specified with -p option to pkg-add
>
> Yes, it's set at compile time and cannot be changed at install time.  -p
> is not generally useful for this reason.  In your situation you need to
> use ports instead or make a symlink.
>
> Kris

 Yeah, I do understand -p won't help (my HDDs're covered with heavy 
cross-symlinks net), but my idea is that port-compilers should deal with this 
to make *.pc paths being configured at install time



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