On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:19:39 +0100, Peter wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a query about the new noarch feature for building rpms. I have > a package called gupnp-vala which the contents there of can be noarch. > It built fine in koji as noarch so I presume it passed the rpmdiff or > what ever is run against the rpms. But it contains a pkgconfig file > which is located in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 so pacakges built against > it (none actually in Fedora yet, but one awaiting review) fail to > build on either 32 or 64 bit platforms depending on which of the build > packages gets the lime light. > > So my query is, I presume due to the pkgconfig this package shouldn't > be noarch, so there must be a bug there somewhere which caused it to > get past koji. But as its noarch AFAICT other than the location of the > pkgconfig file it seems somewhat of a waste to lose the advantage of > the noarch stuff for the sake of a pkgconfig file as I presume most > devel packages could be noarch. Noarch packages should install pkgconfig files into /usr/share/pkgconfig not /usr/lib/pkgconfig and not %_libdir/pkgconfig either. HTH -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
