RFC: PKG_CHECK_MODULES() should honor ${libdir} and ${datadir}

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Benjamin Otte <otte at gnome.org> schrieb:

> So I'm proposing that the pkg-config autotools macros should add
> ${libdir}/pkgconfig and ${datadir}/pkgconfig to the paths they look in
> for pc files, preferring them to the default paths, but preferring
> user-set environment variables.

That's definitively wrong - the same kind of error like directly
adding absolute -I or -L pathes. It simply breaks any kind of
jailed or sysroot'ed builds.

And it's also wrong for another reason: the install pathes given
to ./configure have nothing to do with those of the imported 
packages, whatsoever. They're *NOT* _identical_, it's just a
matter of luck if they're equal.

If such a misfeature would ever be introduced, that would bring
a hell of trouble to distro maintainers !


cu
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