Hi Barry,
On Aug 3, 2015, at 2:53, Barry Kauler <[email protected]> wrote
> 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.
AFAICS this should be fully transparent to any configure / Makefile as IIRC
pkg-config itself is evaluating the variable and searching in all this paths.
Greetings from Berlin,
René
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