rawhide report: 20060304 changes

[Christopher Aillon]

On 03/04/2006 04:20 AM, 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.
> 
> 

Actually, it's more important that things are in a state where upgrading 
works sanely.  Changing from noarch -> arch-specific -> noarch typically 
breaks upgrading.