Re: pkg-config and share/

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 09:33:53AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Andrea Pappacoda wrote:
> > Il giorno lun 25 lug 2022 alle 15:56:12 +02:00:00, Andrea Pappacoda
> > <andrea@pappacoda.it> ha scritto:
> > > > what is
> > > > fundamentally different from share/pkgconfig and libdata/pkgconfig
> > > > beside the
> > > > name of the directory?
> > > 
> > > I guess the difference is in the meaning of the two locations. If a .pc
> > > file is in share/ you can be sure it can be used for cross compilation,
> > > as share/ only contains arch-independent stuff. And if it is in
> > > libdata/? Maybe, I can't know, it could be either arch-specific or
> > > arch-independent.
> > 
> > Hi Bapt, sorry to ping this thread, but I think I forgot to specify my
> > intents clearly.
> > 
> > Given the usefulness of using share/pkgconfig/, and the fact that pkgconf
> > upstream and many different OSes use that directory too, would you consider
> > making your pkgconf honour that directory too?
> > 
> > If not, could you please point me to where I should go / who should I ask to
> > make the Ports system move .pc files from share/ to libdata/? As Daniel
> > (diizzy) mentioned, it seems that currently only files from lib/ are moved
> > to libdata/.
> > 
> > If you're not convinced of share/'s usefulness, please pay this thread a
> > visit: https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus/pull/165
> > 
> > Thanks for your time!
> > 
> > 
> 
> What is interesting is: I am the second contributor to the pkgconf project, we
> were iirc the first big project to entirely switch to pkgconf and we never ever
> needed share/pkgconfig, after digging back in history I can see it was there
> since forever, and when I performed the switch from pkg-config to pkgconf and
> never ever reintroduced anything but libdata/pkgconfig (our equivalent of
> lib/pkgconfig), so this would be the first use case.
> 
> And yes the auto population of libdata/pkgconfig is done by moving the files
> from lib/pkgconfig not moving the files from share/pkgconfig.
> 
> I will add support for share/pkgconfig asap.
> 
> Thank for the pointer.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt

Done
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=d48fab59daa56e0b3b6ffecef57a69c32ae9c0a7

Best regards,
Bapt