Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:
>> +static const char *template =
>> + "prefix=/usr\n"
>> + "exec_prefix=${prefix}\n"
>> + "libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib\n"
>> + "\n"
>> + "Name: zlib\n"
>> + "Description: zlib compression library\n"
>> + "Version: %s\n"
>> + "Libs: -lz\n";
>
> The above is bit different what zlib.pc files have in e.g. Fedora 20 and
> Ubuntu 14.04 machines: those have 'Requires: before Libs: (and Cflags:)'
> But probably that is unnecessary (and just some sugar coating...?).
>
it seems consistent with the 'foo' example at
http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html#writing
>
> To be consistent what we do elsewhere:
>
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKG_CONFIG_PATH:+$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:}compat &&
>
> i.e. don't add ':' in case $PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not defined or is empty string.
What Tomi writes here sounds correct to me. I guess empty PKG_CONFIG_PATH is
probably the most common case.
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