Re: Libtool and Pkg-Config

[Martijn van Beers]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:34:42AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2001, Eric Lemings <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Currently, they just install their .pc file into pkg-config's data directory.
> Which is exactly the wrong approach.  A package should never, ever
> install anything outside the --prefix/--exec-prefix/--*dir specified
> by the user.  Having stuff stuffed :-) into pkg-config's data
> directories will just make it impossible to reasonably pick one out of
> multiple installed versions of the same package.  Please don't do
> that.
Maybe you should actually take a look at pkg-config instead of listening
to people talking about it inaccurately. pkg-config does not have a
single data directory where you put in all the .pc files. you can
install them anywhere you want and point pkg-config at them with
the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.


Martijn