[PATCH] Ignore the default %libdir/pkgconfig directory

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:42:23PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:33:39PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >> If you set PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/i686-pc-mingw/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig,
> >> does that also work? I believe that was the intention of this
> >> variable.
> >
> > Yes, I think that should work, and I'm not sure why we didn't see it
> > before.  Anyhow, I'll try it out later this week.
> 
> Pretty easy to test. Assume you have foo.pc in
> /usr/i686-pc-mingw/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig and
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig.
> 
> $ PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/i686-pc-mingw/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig
> PKG_CONFIG_DEBUG_SPEW=1 pkg-config --print-errors --exists foo
> 
> That should give you any information you need to see. You can also
> make PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR into a PATH like variable:
> 
> PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/i686-pc-mingw/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/i686-pc-mingw/sys-root/mingw/share/pkgconfig

Yes, I confirmed this does work.

Rich.

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