Re: New PKG_CONFIG path?

2009-12-16 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:28 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote: 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? It's not a mistake on your part - it just seems to be that a small number of packages install their

Re: New PKG_CONFIG path?

2009-12-16 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:56 -0500, Chris Staub wrote: 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

Re: New PKG_CONFIG path?

2009-12-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On 16/12/09 02:28, 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'. If no mistakes on my part on

Re: New PKG_CONFIG path?

2009-12-16 Thread alupu
Hi guys: Thank you very much for your comments. Chris Staub wrote on Tue Dec 15 22:56:48 MST 2009: unless there are duplicate files in both directories. My original post: 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

Re: New PKG_CONFIG path?

2009-12-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On 16/12/09 20:00, al...@verizon.net wrote: Andrew Benton wrote on Wed Dec 16 05:25:26 MST 2009 Why? Can you give examples of these errors? Yes [the trigger for my opening post]. Failure of 'xorg-server-1.7.1' (Xorg-7.5) on configure: checking for XSERVERCFLAGS... configure: error:

Re: New PKG_CONFIG path?

2009-12-16 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 14:00 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote: The Udev developers, in their relentless quest for perfection decided to join the crowd with their own pc file in 149. Interesting... I'd not noticed that one (it's present as early as 146, btw). Going by the contents of /lib/udev, I

New PKG_CONFIG path?

2009-12-15 Thread alupu
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

Re: New PKG_CONFIG path?

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Staub
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