Moving the pkgconfig directory from lib/ to libdata/?

Sun May 15 09:58:00 GMT 2005

On Wed, 2005年05月11日 at 22:42 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On 2005年5月11日, Roman Kennke wrote:
> >>> Is the pkgconfig directory at the correct location when put under lib/,
> >>> or shouldn't this be libdata/ instead?
> >> What system has $(prefix)/libdata? None I'm familiar with.
> > The BSDs for example use libdata dirs. I suppose the patch is from a BSD 
> > port?
>> Yes, indeed. It came from a FreeBSD user.
>> So I guess I should rephrase $SUBJECT as: How can we properly set the 
> pkgconfig directory to $(prefix)/libdata/ for FreeBSD and potentially 
> others?
Using $(prefix)/libdata without any doubt would be wrong.
> Any chance for someone with auto* skills to hack this up?
There is no real need to do so.
make pkgdatadir=<prefix>/libdata install
already should do the job.
Ralf