Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:10:39 GMT From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/69093: [patch] devel/pkgconfig does not search for .pc files in libdir/pkgconfig Message-ID: <200407151610.i6FGAdeJ073586@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/69093; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Konstantin Oznobihin <bork@rsu.ru> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@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 --=-2KVlqG0ymAawiCjbSUxu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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= g > > the effort we put into it in past. >=20 > 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 --=20 Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz> <pav@FreeBSD.org> Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. --=-2KVlqG0ymAawiCjbSUxu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Toto je =?iso-8859-2?Q?digit=E1ln=EC?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_podepsan=E1?= =?iso-8859-2?Q?_=E8=E1st?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_zpr=E1vy?= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBA9quqntdYP8FOsoIRAhIBAKCgR/tGiFcUPc+1SQScUD6dN7411QCgrm0A ocarsJUb7fv99f+n/7i/blA= =8ei1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2KVlqG0ymAawiCjbSUxu--
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