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

[Adam Weinberger]

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

From: Adam Weinberger <adamw 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 15:55:49 -0400

 >> (07.15.2004 @ 1143 PST): Konstantin Oznobihin said, in 1.6K: <<
 > I do not argue with that and completly agree that libdata is a better
 > location. But this particular issue concerns third party software and I
 > am not sure that it is always a good decision to force that software to
 > entirely meet FreeBSD requirements.
 
 What, you think that pkgconfig itself isn't third party software?
 
 > Thank you, I was no aware of this feature, but unfortunately it does not
 > help openssl to put files in a proper location.
 
 Thank you for helping me to see the light. I'm closing your PR now.
 
 # Adam
 
 
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