Re: [Mingw-users] Install pkg-config

[LRN <lr...@gm...>]

On 15.06.2010 21:05, Earnie wrote:
> LRN wrote:
>   
>> Keep MinGW packages in /mingw, MSys packages in /, and everything else
>> in /local/
>>
>>     
> Actually, the advertised and supported method for MinGW is to put any 
> "native" application (those not requiring the MSYS DLL) in /mingw and 
> MSYS applications in /.  If you put "everything else" in /local then you 
> are on your own for the support especially where something isn't found 
> because it isn't in /mingw.
>
>   
Why? To me it makes perfect sense that package-originated files are in
/mingw and in /, while everything i build from the source (or what i
download in a pre-built form - basically something installed with make
install DESTDIR=/somewhere and archived) goes into /local/ . This way i
never have to mess with any files in /mingw or /
A fine point is that pkg-config should be in /local/bin in this case,
because otherwise it won't be able to locate *.pc files in
/local/lib/pkgconfig without explicit instructions. But since GTK (which
is the way i'm usually getting pkg-config - AFAIK there is no special
pkg-config MinGW package either) is not a MinGW package, it goes into
/local/ for me, so this is not a problem.