Bug 249858 – x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.24.0 installs pkg-config file to /usr/share/pkgconfig

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) 2008-12-04 21:03:24 UTC]

loki ~ # equery files x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.24.0|grep '\.pc'
/usr/share/pkgconfig/gnome-icon-theme.pc

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-12-04 21:10:39 UTC]

You're going to have to argue on what is wrong with this...
see comment #1 of bug #244840

[Comment 2 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) 2008-12-04 21:30:16 UTC]

From how I read the man page, it seemed that /usr/shar/pkgconfig wouldn't be searched:
       pkg-config retrieves information about packages from special metadata files. These files are named after the package, with the  extension  .pc.
       By default, pkg-config looks in the directory prefix/lib/pkgconfig for these files; it will also look in the colon-separated (on Windows, semi‐
       colon-separated) list of directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

I just now read further down where that is contradicted:
              A  colon-separated  (on Windows, semicolon-separated) list of directories to search for .pc files.  The default directory will always be
              searched after searching the path; the default is libdir/pkgconfig:datadir/pkgconfig where libdir is the  libdir  where  pkg-config  and
              datadir is the datadir where pkg-config was installed.

Closing as invalid then.

[Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp 2008-12-06 05:23:07 UTC]

pkg-config upstream has a long outstanding manual bug with patches to still resolve. Upstream maintainer is AWOL

[Comment 4 Mart Raudsepp 2008-12-06 05:24:04 UTC]

I mean manual page patch to make it match reality in regards to default search path.