rawhide report: 20060304 changes

[Mike A. Harris]

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.

Feel free to submit a patch to X.Org to do this, so it is fixed in
the future.


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