Package: pkg-config Version: 0.21-1 Severity: normal
Hi, /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 should mark the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable as 'precious'. Rationale: if the same library is installed at multiple locations (say, a normal version in a system location and a devalopment version under my home directory), and during the build of some software using such a library automake re-runs configure (because e.g. configure.ac was changed) with a different PKG_CONFIG_PATH (because e.g. I'm working in a different window), then I'm suddenly using the wrong version of the library and I get all kinds of misterious failures. Therefore PKG_CONFIG_PATH (and maybe PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR) should be marked as precious by using AC_ARG_VAR(), just like it is done for PKG_CONFIG. Gabor -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages pkg-config depends on: ii libc6 2.5-0exp3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries pkg-config recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
