[PATCH xbitmaps] Install pkgconfig file into arch-dependent location

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 10:34:19 UTC 2016


On 23 September 2016 at 08:07, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 09/23/16 12:05 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>
>> On 23 September 2016 at 07:31, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 19:12:13 +0200, Heiko Becker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Becker <heirecka at exherbo.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>  Makefile.am | 2 +-
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
>>>> index 060112d..9a89bbe 100644
>>>> --- a/Makefile.am
>>>> +++ b/Makefile.am
>>>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>>> -pkgconfigdir = $(datadir)/pkgconfig
>>>> +pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
>>>>  pkgconfig_DATA = xbitmaps.pc
>>>>
>>>>  MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = ChangeLog INSTALL
>>>
>>>
>>> That seems like it's going backwards, and your commit message doesn't
>>> explain why.
>>>
>> That was my initial thought as well (going backwards). Then again,
>> as-is the .pc file is located in a arch _in_ dependant location, which
>> causes file conflicts as you have multilib - x86-86 & x86 installed
>> for example. In such cases the files have different contents (path)
>> which leads to link time issues.
>
>
> How can you have link time issues when there's noting in xbitmaps to
> link with?   It's purely xbm files, sometimes abused as C headers.
>
Ack, you're absolutely correct. I didn't realise that the xbitmaps
repo doesn't ship any libraries.

Thanks
Emil


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