/usr/local support
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Sun Apr 6 10:11:57 PDT 2008
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 18:51 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> schrieb:
>
> > Sorry, it got lost in the abyss of my mailbox. A conceptually similar
> > patch has been applied now where it adds /usr/lib/pkgconfig and
> > /usr/share/pkgconfig if prefix is unset.
> ^^^^^^
> WTF ?!
> Which version is affected, where do I have to fork at ?
>
> ${datadir} is meant for _arch-independent_ const data.
> .pc descriptors directly belong to libs and so are _clearly_
> arch-dependent.
Look at your filesystem before sending flames...there are plenty of pc
files nowadays which _are_ arch-independent and don't directly belong to
libs. /usr/share/pkgconfig is for those.
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