Re: pkg-config not written to $libdir/pkgconfig

[Sven Joachim]

On 2019-05-31 22:49 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> I'm configuring Ncurses 6.1 with the following variables set in the 
> environment:
>
>    PREFIX: /usr/local
>    LIBDIR: /usr/local/lib64
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig
>        CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/include -DNDEBUG
>          CFLAGS: -g2 -O2 -march=native -fPIC -pthread
>        CXXFLAGS: -g2 -O2 -march=native -fPIC -pthread
>         LDFLAGS: -L/usr/local/lib64 -Wl,-R,/usr/local/lib64
> -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
>          LDLIBS: -ldl -lpthread
>
> And the following configure arguments:
>
>     CONFIG_OPTS=()
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--prefix=$PREFIX")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--libdir=$LIBDIR")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--disable-leaks")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-shared")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-cxx-shared")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--without-ada")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--enable-pc-files")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-termlib")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--disable-root-environ")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-build-cc=$CC")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-build-cxx=$CXX")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-build-cpp=${CPPFLAGS[*]}")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-build-cflags=${CFLAGS[*]}")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-build-cxxflags=${CXXFLAGS[*]}")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-build-ldflags=${LDFLAGS[*]}")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("--with-build-libs=${LIBS[*]}")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=${PKGCONFIG[*]}")
>     CONFIG_OPTS+=("PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKGCONFIG[*]}")
>
>     PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="${PKGCONFIG[*]}" \
>     PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKGCONFIG[*]}" \
>     CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS[*]}" \
>     CFLAGS="${CFLAGS[*]}" \
>     CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS[*]}" \
>     LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS[*]}" \
>     LIBS="${LIBS[*]}" \
> ./configure "address@hidden"
>
> However, after the build and install, the *.pc files are missing:
>
> $ ls /usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/
> expat.pc      libcurl.pc      libpcre2-8.pc      libssl.pc      xerces-c.pc
> guile-2.2.pc  libffi.pc       libpcre2-posix.pc  libtasn1.pc    zlib.pc
> hiredis.pc    libidn2.pc      libpcrecpp.pc      libunbound.pc
> hogweed.pc    libidn.pc       libpcre.pc         nettle.pc
> libcares.pc   libpcre2-16.pc  libpcreposix.pc    openssl.pc
> libcrypto.pc  libpcre2-32.pc  libpsl.pc          p11-kit-1.pc
>
> It looks like system files in /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ are being overwritten.
>
> Am I missing an option, or maybe have an incorrect option?

The option "--with-pkg-config-libdir=…" works for me.

Cheers,
       Sven