On 12/15/2009 09:28 PM, al...@verizon.net wrote: > > Hello, > > In the process of building Xorg-7.5 (from 7.4) > I stumbled upon something odd. > For a couple of packages their 'pc' files ended up > in '/usr/share/pkgconfig' instead of the tried and true > '/usr/lib/pkgconfig'. > Specifically, in '/usr/share/pkgconfig' I now have: > udev-149 (independently, of course) and > xtrans-1.2.5 (of the Xorg-7.5 lib). > > The previous 'xtrans' (1.2.1 - of the Xorg-7.4) > was placed, together with all the others, > in '/usr/lib/pkgconfig/'. > > If no mistakes on my part on this subject, > this will cause errors for some packages > looking in the wrong place. > > Is this a trend? > > If I'm right, I have to add > '/usr/share/pkgconfig' somewhere. > What should be the order in PKG_CONFIG_PATH: > /usr/lib/pkgconfig ... /usr/share/pkgconfig > or > /usr/share/pkgconfig ... /usr/lib/pkgconfig? >
First, it doesn't matter what order, unless there are duplicate files in both directories. Second, as noted in the manpage, /usr/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/share/pkgconfig are both searched by default anyway so they don't need to be in PKG_CONFIG_PATH. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
