On 8/2/15, linuxcbon linuxcbon <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Jul 28, 2015, at 20:31, René Rebe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the pkgconfig should be in the associated $prefix/$libdir
>>
>> So packages installed into /opt/$pkg /usr/local/ /usr/X11/ etc. have have
>> their associated pkgconfig in that place.
>>
>> René
>
>
> Hi René,
>
> is it possible that you change your scripts so that only
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ will be used ?
> Or at least, as most of possible.
> What programs and libraries are not in the standard place ? Can you
> please give the list ?
> (I don't have the hand on it right now). Is it possible you correct them ?
>
> Cheers
> linuxcbon
>
>

The "standard" does not have to be only /usr/lib/pkgconfig, as Rene has said.

The 'pkgconfig' folder is allowed to be in multiple places. As long as
variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set correctly, all should be well.

Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf for example, has this:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig'

...yep, even in /usr/share!

However, a wrongly designed configure script in a source package may
not respect the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable, unfortunate but it happens.

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