On 03/29/2010 01:53 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm packaging gnome-js-common, which contains some JavaScript > libraries intended to be used from gjs and seed (the latter is also > being packaged). It contains only noarch .js files, so I'm intending > to make the entire package noarch, but it also provides a .pc file. > > It turns out that, on x86_64, the 64-bit pkgconfig does *not* pick up > files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig by default, which I guess is a good thing > in most situations. However, in this case it does make for an annoying > situation. > > 1) Overriding PKG_CONFIG_PATH is a bad idea. What if a program needs > gnome-js-common (which is noarch) and some arch-dependent libs that > also use pkgconfig for dependency tracking? It might erroneously > satisfy 64-bit dependencies with 32-bit ones. > > 2) Putting the .pc file in both /usr/lib64/pkgconfig *and* > /usr/lib/pkgconfig would require co-owning /usr/lib64/pkgconfig > > Should I just leave the package as arch-dependent even though it is not? noarch-package's *.pc's are supposed to be installed into /usr/share/pkgconfig Ralf -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
