On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Vadim Zhukov <persg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> While playing with phonon update (KDE 4.7.0 is on the horizont, actually),
> I stepped in a problem: not all variable names work in pkg-config.
> Here is normal case:
>
> $ cat /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/phonon.pc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this path
> prefix=/usr/local
> exec_prefix=/usr/local
> libdir=/usr/local/lib
> includedir=/usr/local/include
> buildsystemdir=/usr/local/share/phonon-buildsystem/
>
> Name: Phonon
> Description: Phonon library needed to build applications
> Version: 4.5.0
> Requires: QtCore QtGui QtDBus
> Libs: -L${libdir} -lphonon
> Cflags: -I${includedir}
> $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/qt4/pkgconfig pkg-config --variable
and this path ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
are not the same.
> libdir phonon
> /usr/local/lib/qt4
Also compare libdir value in your cat output vs pkg-config output.
See Nigel Taylor's response as well.
--patrick
>
> And here is problematic call:
> $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/qt4/pkgconfig pkg-config --variable
> buildsystemdir phonon
>
> Just another variable name, and we get no output here, but error code is 0.
> Same happens when no variable with specified name found - dunno if this
> is by design.
>
> Is this a known problem? After a brief look, didn't found any
> suscpious in pkg-config code.
>
> --
> WBR,
> Vadim Zhukov
