pkg-config and rpm relocations

[Kevin Fox]

On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 23:47 -0700, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Dan Nicholson 
> 
> (Kevin, not sure if you're subscribed or not, so Cc-ing you)

(For the record, I am. Thanks.)

> 
> | You can already do that today just by setting the variables in your
> | .pc file appropriately.
> | 
> | foo.pc:
> | relocatableprefix=
> | prefix=${relocatableprefix}/usr
> | exec_prefix=${prefix}
> | includedir=${prefix}/include
> | libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
> | 
> | Cflags: -I${includedir}
> | Libs.private: -L${libdir} -lfoo
> | 
> | In fact, you can probably fake it today with most .pc files just by
> | using "pkg-config --define-variable=prefix=$relocatableprefix".
> 
> I believe Kevin wants this to happen automatically, and you might
> reasonably want to relocate some, but not all of your libraries,
> something this approach does not support.


Exactly. :)

Kevin
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