[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Fix install location of systemd.pc

[Simon Peeters]

2014-12-31 11:12 GMT+00:00 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>:
> Simon Peeters [2014-12-29 15:01 +0000]:
>> I have no preference between the 2, but moving the pc file to
>> $libdir/pkgconfig just does not make sense.
>
> Why not? pkg-config looks in both /usr/share and /usr/lib, so it
> doesn't care. And you can't install systemd for multiple architectures
> in parallel anyway, so you'd only ever have one version installed.

Let me rephrase what I wrote above that quote:

If I understand lennarts commit message, the only reason for libdir to
be in the pc file is to find the libdir for the primary arch.
moving this pc file into $libdir/pkgconfig would require you to know
the libdir for the primary arch (or at least the one systemd was
compiled for) in order to read it, so the libdir variable in the pc
file is redundant because the information it contains needs to be
known in order to read it.
So if you would move the pc file to $libdir then the libdir variable
in the pc file no longer has any purpose, so you can drop it.
Now you have a pc file in libdir without any architecture specific
data, so you could as well move it back to /usr/share

But anyway, that is only if I understand the purpose of the libdir var
in the pc file correctly.


Greetings. (and enjoy the end of 2014!)

Simon