From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:08:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] udev/pkgconfig: fix exec_prefix to be generated from @exec_prefix@ Message-Id: <200901071608.25411.inaky@linux.intel.com> List-Id: References: <1231369695-12478-1-git-send-email-inaky@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1231369695-12478-1-git-send-email-inaky@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 00:08, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez > > wrote: > > From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez > > > > Otherwise paths where the libraries are to be found are out of sync. > > Pkgconfig usually points to the development symlink to the .so, not > the real .so, and that should be in prefix, not in exec_prefix. The > fact that the lib lives in the rootfs is hidden by the dynloader, and > not interesting to the user of the library. We did it like your patch > does in the past, but we got a patch to turn that exactly into the way > it is now. > > Now we need to find out what to do. :) What exactly fails for you? Nothing yet -- it just looked odd/inconsistent to me, I've had similar issues in the past. If you want, just hold it and I'll try reverting it and see if the app I have to build against that fails or works and let you know. -- Inaky