rawhide report: 20060304 changes

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 04:20:27 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 03:19 -0500, Build System wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>xorg-x11-xbitmaps-1.0.1-3
> >>-------------------------
> >>* Thu Mar 02 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris at redhat.com> 1.0.1-3
> >>- Made package arch specific due to pkgconfig files being placed in lib64
> >>  if the noarch packages manage to get built on x86_64/ppc64/s390x.
> > 
> > 
> > What?
> > 
> > Fix the toplevel Makefile.am to install the pkgconfig file to $datadir
> > instead of libdir:
> > 
> > -pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
> > +pkgconfigdir = $(datadir)/pkgconfig
> > 
> > That's what other noarch packages do.
> > 
> > 
> > Alternatively, fix your spec to use
> > 
> > %configure --libdir=%_datadir
> > ...
> > %_datadir/share/pkgconfig/*.pc
> 
> For now, the important thing is that FC5 is in a state that everything
> builds, and is ready for final release.  Minor trivia like this is not
> mission critical to the release of the OS.

Moving the .pc file like Ralf suggests is very unlikely to break anything
at all, since default search order for pkg-config is
libdir/pkgconfig:datadir/pkgconfig, so the file would still be found.