| Summary: | poppler-data's Makefile should install pkgconfig files to arch-dependent location | ||
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| Product: | poppler | Reporter: | Kylie McClain <kylie> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | kylie |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Attachments: | [PATCH] Makefile: install pkgconfig files to arch-dependent location | ||
Can you please explain why poppler *data* should be *architecture* dependent? It's purely a QA thing. It prevents files from two different architectures on one filesystem from overwriting each other when one is installed on a system with poppler-data already installed for one architecture. The case for this is Exherbo's multiarch, which we are trying to ban installation to /usr/share/pkgconfig with, since it tends to be architecture dependent. I'd argue your distro is doing it wrong if you have arch-dependent packages for poppler-data. |
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Created attachment 117241 [details] [PATCH] Makefile: install pkgconfig files to arch-dependent location pkgconfig files should be installed to arch-specific locations almost always, because otherwise it can result in having a package installed for two different architecture on one system (i686/x86_64, for example) and the files end up clobbering each other. The attached patch changes the Makefile to install it to $(libdir)/pkgconfig instead.