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[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 04:20 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 03:19 -0500, Build System wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>xorg-x11-xbitmaps-1.0.1-3
> >>-------------------------
> >>* Thu Mar 02 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris at redhat.com> 1.0.1-3
> >>- Made package arch specific due to pkgconfig files being placed in lib64
> >>  if the noarch packages manage to get built on x86_64/ppc64/s390x.
> > 
> > 
> > What?
> > 
> > Fix the toplevel Makefile.am to install the pkgconfig file to $datadir
> > instead of libdir:
> > 
> > -pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
> > +pkgconfigdir = $(datadir)/pkgconfig
> > 
> > That's what other noarch packages do.
> > 
> > 
> > Alternatively, fix your spec to use
> > 
> > %configure --libdir=%_datadir
> > ...
> > %_datadir/share/pkgconfig/*.pc
> 
> For now, the important thing is that FC5 is in a state that everything
> builds, and is ready for final release.  Minor trivia like this is not
> mission critical to the release of the OS.
>
> Feel free to submit a patch to X.Org to do this, so it is fixed in
> the future.

It's always great having to experience the "warm feeling" your responses
emit and having to experience your attempts on pushing people around,
instead of fixing bugs you are responsible for yourself.

Even the time you invested to reply my remark exceeds the time it would
have taken you to fix your spec-file. 

Ralf