ports/69093: [patch] devel/pkgconfig does not search for .pc files in libdir/pkgconfig

[Konstantin Oznobihin]

The following reply was made to PR ports/69093; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Konstantin Oznobihin <bork at rsu.ru>
To: pav at FreeBSD.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/69093: [patch] devel/pkgconfig does not search for .pc
	files in libdir/pkgconfig
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:10:07 +0400

 > V èt, 15. 07. 2004 v 16:53, Konstantin Oznobihin pí¹e:
 > 
 > > > What port this patch applies to?
 > > Well, it is the /usr/ports/devel/pkgconfig
 > 
 > I see. pkg-config is already checking /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/*.pc,
 > /usr/X11R6/libdata/pkgconfig/*.pc and ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig/*.pc
 > 
 > If there is some port that installs *.pc files somewhere else, like to
 > ${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig, it's the other port what must be fixed, not
 > pkg-config.
 pkg-config checks libdata/pkgconfig instead of lib/pkgconfig due to
 patches in the current devel/pkgconfig port, only this patches requires
 other ported software (which depends on pkgconfig) to use libdata
 instead of lib. IMHO, it is bug in port of pkgconfig not in other ports.
 
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 Konstantin Oznobihin <bork at rsu.ru>
 Systems programmer and administrator
 Computer Center of Rostov State University.