Re: Libtool and Pkg-Config

[Havoc Pennington]

Eric Lemings <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Well I for one was unaware of the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable.  If that is true
> however, how are client packages supposed to know where their .pc files are
> supposed to be installed if this variable can be changed?  Right now, I think 
> most
> assume that its ${libdir}/pkgconfig.
> 

It is libdir/pkgconfig. The issue is that it's the installed app's
libdir, not the libdir used for installing pkgconfig itself. So
pkgconfig needs to potentially scan lots of these dirs.

e.g. I install GTK to /home/hp/unst on one system, so I add
/home/hp/unst/lib/pkgconfig to my PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Havoc