Re: ncurses and pkgconfig install location

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:17:05PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 12:23, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> > > logic to replace what practically every other package does with just
> > > pkgconfigdir=${libdir}/pkgconfig.  What problems does this logic solve
> > > that simply using libdir is the wrong answer for?
> >
> > among other reasons:
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation
> 
> I'm confused then.  That is mostly implemented by passing --libdir and
> expecting software to respect it:
> 
> "most upstream build systems (such as autoconf, with --libdir) will
> install shared libraries, support files, and various development files
> (such as static libraries and .so symlinks) together to the same
> target directory."
> 
> For example, libxml2 is multiarch, so has its shared library in
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu in the amd64 build:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libxml2/filelist
> 
> And the pkgconfig file is simply installed to $libdir/pkgconfig:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libxml2-dev/filelist
> 
> libxml2 just uses $libdir to install the pkgconfig files:
> 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/blob/master/Makefile.am#L1267
> 
> How is libxml2 doing something wrong?

It's not.  I had forgotten that in the process of setting up non-conflicting
test-packages, I'd left my .so's in /usr/lib.

(On other systems, I have other workarounds).

sure, I can make the default $libdir/pkgconfig

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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