introduce pkg-config files

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Mon Oct 25 18:56:25 CEST 2010


On Monday 25 October 2010 12:29:42 pm Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> Allen Winter wrote:
> 
> > Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion..
> > 
> > My only concern is that pkg-config files are typically installed in
> > locations (like /usr or /usr/local) where the regular user doesn't have
> > write-access. Thereby causing problems when installing KDE as a regular
> > user.
> When you install an autotools package to /home/user/prefix, it installs pkg-
> config files to /home/user/prefix/lib/pkgconfig. Then you need export 
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH to inform pkg-config about this location.
> > 

okey, good.
then the kde pkg-config files would be installed in CMAKE_PREFIX_INSTALL/lib/pkgconfig, I guess.

cool.

then I can't think of any other objections.


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