[PATCH] util-macros: Addition of a meta data file xorg-macros.pc.in used by XORG_INSTALL

[Mikhail Gusarov]

Twas brillig at 08:24:37 03.12.2009 UTC+01 when mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
did gyre and gimble:

 >> During cross-compilation brain-damaged stuff like libxtrans just
 >> will not be picked up by compiler unless various pereversions are
 >> applied. Given this, xtrans.pc need to be installed to /usr/share,
 >> and hence there is no problem to install rest of arch-independent
 >> stuff to /usr/share.

 MK> Sorry, I must be missing something.  Since when do compilers look in
 MK> /usr/share?

Ugh. I meant pkg-config.

 >> Include list for cross-compilation does not include /usr/lib, it
 >> instead includes /usr/$arch/lib. All libraries need to be installed
 >> to /usr/$arch/lib anyway to be usable for cross-compilation, but
 >> headers and stuff like macros and source code do not.

 MK> Isn't /usr/$arch just another $PREFIX?  So currently .pc files
 MK> would end up in /usr/$arch/lib where they would be picked up just
 MK> fine if you set the proper environment variables.

Well, it's kind of special, as there should be no /usr/$arch/share (so
there is no logical place for xtrans.m4).

 MK> Corss-compilation is the special case here.  It's perfectly
 MK> acceptable to ask people to do a bit of more work in that case.
 MK> Much more acceptable than imposing the same burden on the majority
 MK> of people doing native builds.

"Native builds" of all kinds are FOOBARed if they don't look at
/usr/share/pkgconfig. E.g.:

udev: /usr/share/pkgconfig/udev.pc
xcb-proto: /usr/share/pkgconfig/xcb-proto.pc
libpthread-stubs0-dev: /usr/share/pkgconfig/pthread-stubs.pc

Asking to "do a bit of more work" just to compensate for upstream
failing to grasp pkg-config is rude. I could live with various hacks:
hey, it's bloody one-line patch. Should I, or it's better to make it
work properly?

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