Re: [Mingw-users] Install pkg-config

[Vincent T. <vt...@un...>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, LRN wrote:

> 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.

i think that he just want to say that CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS, PATH, 
PKG_CONFIG_PATH etc... env variables must also be set so that everything 
is correctly detected.

Btw, I agree with you. I usually put everything else in /usr/local and set 
the needed env var in /etc/profile file. I even installed some specific 
libraries in other directories. Once you know what to do, there is no 
problem at all.

Vincent Torri