Bug 2326

Summary:	Look for pkgconfig subdirs for all paths in /etc/ld.so.conf
Product:	pkg-config	Reporter:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij>
Component:	src	Assignee:	Scott James Remnant <scott>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Linus Walleij 2005-01-19 03:50:51 UTC

Since the normal way of telling your operating system where to look
for libraries is (on Linux, mind you) to modify /etc/ld.so.conf and
friends (like included files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d) and since pkgconfig
will look in /lib hierarchies like /usr/lib/pkgconfig, I believe that
the correct behaviour of pkgconfig would be to try to retrieve library
locations from /etc/ld.so.conf (+friends) and try to append "pkgconfig"
after these paths so as to locate libraries in exotic places.

Currently, if you put a library in /usr/local/lib par example, and then
the .pc file goes into /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig, then modifying the
/etc/ld.so.conf file does not help pkgconfig to find the .pc file.

IMO it should.

Comment 1 Tollef Fog Heen 2005-03-18 00:05:14 UTC

/etc/ld.so.conf is only used by the runtime linker (ld-linux.so), not by ld and
gcc.  I don't think having pkg-config care about the runtime paths makes sense.

However, pkg-config is going to grow a feature where you can specify a list of
directories to look for .pc files, so you should be able to specify the search
path when building.

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