On Sep 23, 2012 10:35 AM, "Matt Turner" <<a href="mailto:mattst88@gmail.com">mattst88@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Hi Gaetan, > > The proto packages install their pc files in $(libdir)/pkgconfig, but > this leads to files being installed in /usr/lib32 or /usr/lib64 when > there's nothing ABI specific about them. > > Would it be reasonable to install them to $(prefix)/share/pkgconfig instead? I think people always recognized that was correct, but were scared of builds randomly failing because people didn't put that directory in PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Nowadays I say just bite the bullet. I think enough packages have blazed that trail at this point. Dan