mock not processing /etc/profile.d/*, not a login shell?

[Mike Bonnet]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 08:50 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:55:41 -0600
> > Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > 
> >> Sigh, so can someone come up with a better solution to "I want to
> >> install pkg foo, where it defines env vars, and pkgs consuming/using
> >> pkg foo shouldn't need to know it's implementation details (ie, which
> >> file in /etc/profile.d/ needs to source'd)" ?
> > 
> > How do you plan to solve this when installing on a real system?  User
> > installs a bunch of -devel packages, tries to do an rpmbuild, fail.
> > What then?
> 
> The easiest (and only) solution I see so far is my initial suggestion: 
> "start a (new) login shell".
> 
> If that's not acceptable, then we're stuck with the status-quo.

Why not convert qt to use pkg-config like so many other projects do,
rather than stuffing build configuration details into my environment,
where I don't care about them 99% of the time?