.pc file installation location

Peter Johansson trojkan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 07:29:54 PST 2010


Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Greetings.  I'm creating .pc files for our project (www.open-mpi.org).
>
> Where does one typically install these files?  I see that pkg-config(1) v0.23 says:
>
>     ...By default, pkg-config looks in the directory prefix/lib/pkgconfig for these files;...
>
> Does that really mean $prefix/lib/pkgconfig?  Or does it actually mean $libdir/pkgconfig?
>
>   
I use the latter: $(libdir)/pkgconfig

Cheers,
Peter


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