On Montag, 10. März 2008, Ville Skyttä wrote:
Hello,
As discussed in the freetype/fontconfig pkgconfig thread, here's a combined patch implementing installation of VDR's headers and generating a pkgconfig *.pc file.
This patch is mostly just a discussion draft - I haven't tried installing the headers and the pkgconfig file isn't installed yet by any "make install*" (mostly because very ironically, there's no way to query pkg-config for its default search path, which is something I've intended to report a bug about since a long time ago, but failed so far - maybe I'll do it right now :)).
Citing pkg-config manpage: By default, pkg-config looks in the directory prefix/lib/pkgconfig for these files; it will also look in the colon-separated (on Windows, semicolon-separated) list of directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.
So you can install .pc file anywhere you want if you add this location to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
So /usr/bin/pkg-config will always look into /usr/lib/pkgconfig. We can either use A. $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/pkgconfig or B. $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/lib/pkgconfig
For most installations A should be fine.
Matthias