[PATCH] pkgconfig files should be installed to $(libdir)

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 16:50 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:

> > From: Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:04:36 -0500
> > 
> > We need to comply with the FHS standard. If we don't, other
> > installations will break as they use a /usr/share as a common filesystem
> > for architecture independent data. The location is not really a project
> > preference but a standard that OS are expecting we follow.
> 
> Sorry, Gaeton, but FHS isn't a generally accepted standard.  The FHS
> people have pushed it as such, but it really is a Linux-specific
> standard.  So perhaps it is something that Linux distros are expected
> to follow, but you shouldn't expect other UNIX-like OSes to follow it.
> 
> That said I believe /usr/share was a BSD invention that seems to have
> made it back into most systems derived from System V.  So /usr/share
> is pretty much a standard for UNIX-like systems.  Although I doubt
> anybody sane still uses it as a common filesystem.
> 
> Not that the FHS is really relevant here.  What matters is what
> pkg-config expects.  Newer versions do look in /usr/share/pkgconfig,
> older versions don't.  I argued against the s/libdir/datadir/ change
> back in the days for that reason, but modern pkgconfig is pretty much
> a requirement for Xorg these days, and at least some Linux distros do
> use /usr/share/pkgconfig to create arch-independent packages.

Thanks a lot for the clarification. I promised myself to stay away from
that debate, but I failed. If it can help, we have set a minimum version
for pkg-config at 0.22.
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide#GNU_Build_System.

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