On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:37:50PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Martin Costabel wrote: > > Richard Kettlewell wrote: > > >> Obviously this is trivial to work around by setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH, > >> but surely this behavior is not as intended? > > > > It is. > > Why???
Until a few weeks ago, fink had several different and completely incompatible pango libraries available. They obviously can't all be installed in the same place, so the one that was the least standard (or maybe the one that was newest, I can't remember the history) was placed in a subdirectory. You had to explicitly request this newer/weirder one (by setting a flag or variable), and packages that didn't would continue to behave as before. Well now, many years later, we find that this hidden one is the only one that is usable, so the other ones are in the process of being scrapped entirely. But again to maintain compatibility and consistency for all the packages that are expecting it to be buried, gotta keep it there for now. > > > I am not sure if it is documented anywhere outside of the mailing > > list archives, but there you can find it. > > > > I guess it will eventually also be documented in the "compile-myself" > > FAQ entry. Yeah, there are a few now-standard libs that need some standard usage notes like that. Should also be in the DescUsage for the specific packages, but of course it's not--everyone knew or figured it out or didn't care, so nobody wrote down this bit of Fink Oral Tradition. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
