[csw-maintainers] "pkgconfig --exist ..." is telling porkies

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Thu Jul 9 23:53:31 CEST 2009


On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:47:47PM +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>...
> To make it nice and clean the cairo shared libs should also go
> into /opt/csw/X11/lib. Having pkg-config and libs in separate
> places is IMHO even more unelegant than extending PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Hmmm....

initially makes sense to me.... except that if you carry that to its
logical extension, that would meant that EVERYTHING that depends on cairo,
etc,  would then also end up in /opt/csw/X11/lib.
That's a lot of libs.

Not sure that's so grand.



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