[Bug 260719] Vlc hangs on open file dialog

[Kevin Kofler]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260719





--- Comment #41 from Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>  2011-02-02 22:24:49 ---
> Slackware is not broken. Who are you to determine that? The information
> contained in the pkg-config files is arch-dependent.

No. Some pkg-config files contain arch-dependent information, others don't.
That's exactly why there's /usr/lib*/pkgconfig on one hand and
/usr/share/pkgconfig on the other.

The contents of this particular file are:
> prefix=/usr
>
> Name: shared-mime-info
> Description: Freedesktop common MIME database
> Version: 0.80
> Requires:
> Libs:
> Cflags:

Now tell me what in there is arch-dependent.

> Therefore an arch-dependent location is as good as any other location.

No. Putting everything into the arch-dependent /usr/lib*/pkgconfig is wrong. It
means you're installing 2 copies of one and the same file, for no reason.

> Anyway, the proper way to find the location of the .pc files is to examine the
> $PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No. Wrong. The default path is hardcoded in pkg-config. The $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable is NOT SET AT ALL in Fedora. Examining the empty string
will lead you exactly nowhere.

> not to take a wild guess as to the location of that directory.

It's the best we can do without invoking pkg-config, which would mean using
QProcess again.

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