[PATCH xbitmaps] Install pkgconfig file into arch-dependent location

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Sep 23 07:07:22 UTC 2016


On 09/23/16 12:05 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 23 September 2016 at 07:31, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 19:12:13 +0200, Heiko Becker wrote:
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Becker <heirecka at exherbo.org>
>>> ---
>>>  Makefile.am | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
>>> index 060112d..9a89bbe 100644
>>> --- a/Makefile.am
>>> +++ b/Makefile.am
>>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>> -pkgconfigdir = $(datadir)/pkgconfig
>>> +pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
>>>  pkgconfig_DATA = xbitmaps.pc
>>>
>>>  MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = ChangeLog INSTALL
>>
>> That seems like it's going backwards, and your commit message doesn't
>> explain why.
>>
> That was my initial thought as well (going backwards). Then again,
> as-is the .pc file is located in a arch _in_ dependant location, which
> causes file conflicts as you have multilib - x86-86 & x86 installed
> for example. In such cases the files have different contents (path)
> which leads to link time issues.

How can you have link time issues when there's noting in xbitmaps to
link with?   It's purely xbm files, sometimes abused as C headers.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc


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