Re: pkg-config and share/
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:04:24 UTC
Il giorno lun 25 lug 2022 alle 11:08:24 +02:00:00, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> ha scritto: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 10:54:57AM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote: >> On 25/07/22 10:15, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> > When pkg-config came out, (before my time) the .pc files were >> naturally added to >> > libdata which is where most people hacking on freebsd would have >> expected it. >> > >> > So when we switched to pkgconf we preserved that. >> > >> > Note that the ports tree on freebsd does not need patching as it >> automatically >> > moves the .pc files from the "linux" location to libdata. >> Oh, nice! So I can simply install to share/ and FreeBSD will figure it out, right? >> I'm not sure this fully answers Andrea's question. It explains why >> we use >> `libdata` instead of `lib`, but not exactly why we don't use >> `share` at all. >> Is it desired or simply it was added in pkg-config in a second time >> and >> never added to the FreeBSD port? > > Not really except if someone comes with a strong argument, we can > manipulate > where pkgconf does look at, via environment variable if needed. Yeah, I still feel that ignoring share/ is a bit odd, especially because you lose the possibility of determining if a given .pc file refers to an architecture-independent library or not. I don't know how much FreeBSD cares about cross-builds, but I believe that keeping everything in the same dir makes things harder (if not impossible). > The reason we don't look elsewhere by default it to ensure we keep > the room > "clean" and people carefully store things where they are expected to > be, if they > don't, they do it on purpose and we offer mechanism to help them, > (the env > variable). Yep, this makes sense. Every choice has its own trade-offs :) Thank you both for your replies! -- OpenPGP key: 66DE F152 8299 0C21 99EF A801 A8A1 28A8 AB1C EE49