[CMake] Bugs in cmake-2.4.6, please solve for 2.4.7

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-07-09 22:03+0200 Hendrik Sattler wrote:

>> Where to install your own pkgconfig files ?
>> I think you have to decide this yourself, probably in most cases to
>> DESTINATION share/pkgconfig/.
>> Can you please explain a bit more what you'd like to have ?
>
> The pkg-config manpage lists several directories in PKG_CONFIG_PATH,
> conditionally overriden by PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR. If the latter is set,
> installing to one in PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR might be more feasable.
> Or is "share/pkgconfig" always the right choice?

For what it is worth, Debian (sarge) and Ubuntu (Dapper) appear to store
them in /usr/lib/pkgconfig.  I am not aware of the reason for this Debian
policy decision or whether the policcy has been updated for more recent
versions of Debian/Ubuntu.

Alan
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