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

[Pav Lucistnik]

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

From: Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
To: Konstantin Oznobihin <bork at rsu.ru>
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 18:07:06 +0200

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 V =E8t, 15. 07. 2004 v 17:59, Konstantin Oznobihin p=ED=B9e:
 
 > > Depends on point of view. You call it a bug, we call it a feature. It
 > > was deliberately added to our port of pkgconfig three years ago. It cos=
 t
 > > us a lot of effort to keep up with it since. It help pkgconfig to
 > > conform to FreeBSD hierarchy rules, which say "only shared binary files
 > > under lib/, indirectly executed binaries under libexec/, non-executable
 > > stuff under libdata/". I'm not sure we want to drop this feature, takin=
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 > > the effort we put into it in past.
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 > I am definitely not want you to drop this feature. As you can see my
 > patch just adds ${PREFIX}/lib to the existing list of directories. I
 > agree that when it is possible we should make ports conform with FreeBSD
 > rules. Also, I think that looking for things other than shared libraries
 > in lib would not be a big violation of FreeBSD rules, especially if this
 > behavior complies with rules of the paticular software.
 
 Existing behavior gives us a lever to force people to patch their ports
 and conform to hierarchy. If we would allow both /lib and /libdata, how
 many port maintainers do you think would bother to patch lib->libdata?
 
 Changing the location of .pc file is usually a one-line patch to
 Makefile.in
 
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 Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
               <pav at FreeBSD.org>
 
 Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and
 quick to anger.
 
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