`-L` parts are not returned

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> schrieb:
> ]] Paul Menzel 
> 
> | What am I missing? Should not also `-L/usr/lib/` be returned? I could
> | also reproduce this with pkg-config 0.23 found in OpenEmbedded.
> 
> No, /usr/lib is part of the default search path and so should never
> appear on the linker command line.

ACK. Adding such pathes can actually hurt in some situations
(eg. crosscompiling). For example, I remember back the times
of pre-pkgconfig X11 - they actually hardcoded /usr/X11R6/lib
into many places, so I had to carefully adapt each single
packages just to get them crosscompiled.


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