Daniel Macks wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:37:50PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: >> Martin Costabel wrote: >>> Richard Kettlewell wrote: >>>> Obviously this is trivial to work around by setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH, >>>> but surely this behavior is not as intended? >>> It is. >> Why??? > > Until a few weeks ago, fink had several different and completely > incompatible pango libraries available. They obviously can't all be > installed in the same place, so the one that was the least standard > (or maybe the one that was newest, I can't remember the history) was > placed in a subdirectory. You had to explicitly request this > newer/weirder one (by setting a flag or variable), and packages that > didn't would continue to behave as before. Well now, many years later, > we find that this hidden one is the only one that is usable, so the > other ones are in the process of being scrapped entirely. But again to > maintain compatibility and consistency for all the packages that are > expecting it to be buried, gotta keep it there for now.
That certainly explains the current location, but why not do (the equivalent of) ln /sw/lib/pango-ft219/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc /sw/lib/pkgconfig/. and have the best of both worlds? ttfn/rjk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
