Re: ncurses and pkgconfig install location

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:33:40AM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 21:06, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 04:22:58PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can I please echo Ariadne's plea from last month[1] to remove the
> >
> > Before responding further, investigate the changes I've made since 20211021
> 
> That's beside the point, I'm now looking at 100 lines of non-trivial

Actually the point is that I'm not going to change the design,
unless I find an error in it.  If you want to make constructive
comments, I'll pay attention.  So far, you've not done so.

..regarding 100 lines,
that's out of 9849 lines in aclocal.m4, 992 revisions,
to which you've contributed one bug report,
no patches:

20170225
        + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).

> 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

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