> On Apr 6, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Max Howell <max.how...@apple.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't see that information in the man page (also, I am not familiar enough
>> with pkg-config to know how results described in that man page translate to
>> other systems).
>>
>> Specifically, that man page does not seem to document where on disk the .pc
>> files live. How are we going to know that?
>>
>> For example, one on random VM I have lying about I see .pc files here:
>> --
>> /# find / -name \*.pc | xargs dirname | sort | uniq
>> /usr/lib/pkgconfig
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/mit-krb5
>> /usr/share/pkgconfig
>> --
>> and the pkg-config tool appears to be able to find results from all of
>> those. How would we know those directory names if we don't have a dependency
>> on the actual tool?
>
> There is a config file and an environment variable.
>
> Do you need me to document them completely so that we can move forward with
> this?
No, not at all, I think the proposal makes complete sense and should be moved
along.
Nevertheless, I still want to understand how it will work... I might be missing
some information from the man page but I just don't see where this is
described. It *looks* to me like the default search list is hard coded into the
tool.
- Daniel
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