On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:48:58PM +0200, Raphael Bossek wrote: > > You know that PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR was added to pkg-config specifically > > for dpkg-cross, right? If it's not working, that's pkg-config's > > fault. > Hmm, it seams that I've read a too old man page of pkg-config. Now > pkg-config (0.15.0-4) support PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR as introduced by > you as default search path after PKG_COFNIG_PATH. But where is the > difference between _PATH and _LIBDIR? _LIBDIR is a fallback for _PATH. > > Anyhow I think PKG_CONFIG_PATH should be used/extended instead of > overwritting PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR as specified by the user. We should only > extent the configuration by adding a new path to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR should never be set by the user (Or, if they do, it's wrong). Using PKG_CONFIG_PATH doesn't remove /usr/lib/pkgconfig from the search path. PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR does. dave...
