Juan RP wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:03:24 -0400
> Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>This changes pkgsrc's pkgconfig in ways that are incompatible with the 
>>stock pkgconfig.  Could we instead simply make the code match the 
>>documentation by implementing PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR?
> 
> 
> Yes, we could... but PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR isn't used anymore by pkg-config.
> 
> If they changed to use PKG_CONFIG_PATH, why we shouldn't do the same?

But elsewhere in this thread, it is said that the pkgconfig manpage does 
document a PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR, but it is nowhere present in the code. 
Implementing PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR is just fixing the code.  Changing the 
semantics of PKG_CONFIG_PATH is something different.  From the 
documentation, it appears that PKG_CONFIG_PATH is meant to be a search 
path prepended to the compiled-in path.  Your proposed modification to 
make PKG_CONFIG_PATH replace it altogether would likely break software 
that relied on the documented behaviour of PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>