[PATCH xbitmaps] Install pkgconfig file into arch-dependent location
Heiko Becker
heirecka at exherbo.org
Fri Sep 23 10:42:22 UTC 2016
On 09/23/16 12:34, Emil Velikov wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
It doesn't, but it provides includes and the includedir gets propagated
via pkg-config, leading to a build error on a multi-arch layout when
cross compiling xsetroot.
Cheers,
Heiko
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