Re: rep-gtk 0.18.6 on x86-64 doesn't create an RPM

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 10:44 -0600 schrieb Michal Jaegermann:
> > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 06:02:50PM +0200, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> > > Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 09:51 -0600 schrieb Michal Jaegermann:
> > > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:24:07PM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Some other snippets from the BUILD directory are attached to help
> > > > > those who understand the runes decipher the error.  I could use a
> > > > > brute force hard coded libdir, but that is cheating.
> > > > > prefix=/usr
> > > > > exec_prefix=${prefix}
> > > > > libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
> > > > > includedir=${prefix}/include
> > > > Just looking at that this appears to be wrong.  'libdir' should be set
> > > > to an expansion of %{_libdir} and for x86_64 this is not /usr/lib.
> > > > That shows in rep-gtk.pc and Makefile.
> > > libdir is set to @libdir@ in all .in files, so I don't get why it's not
> > > working.
> > I really do not know.  That was only a comment on a posted
> > fragments.  Only somehow 'libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib' sneaked in.
> > That does not look like a substitution of '@libdir@'.
>
> check the .in files @libdir@ is set correctly. can't image what's
> happening ....
>
> well as a work-around you could pass --libdir=${_libdir} to %build's
> autogen.
>
> > > ... well Teika said it works now for him (or her?).
> > A branch with fixes vs. what was released?  Just guessing ...
> >
> >    Michal
>
> Nope the fix got into trunk and that's what has been released

The bit that puzzles me is that it works for the /rep/ bits, but not for
the pkgconfig bits, I haven't found where that happens. The lib64 bit I
get comes from "repexecdir", so an equivalent lib is needed for pkgconfig.

From configure.in
PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBREP, librep >= $REP_MIN_VER
                  ,REP_EXECDIR="`pkg-config --variable=repcommonexecdir librep`"
                  REP_CFLAGS="`pkg-config --cflags librep`"
                  ,AC_MSG_ERROR([can't locate librep]))

From configure
REP_EXECDIR="`pkg-config --variable=repcommonexecdir librep`"

From Makefile.in
repexecdir= REP_EXECDIR@

From Makefile
repexecdir=/usr/lib64/rep/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

So this translates to "put the rep-gtk stuff wherever you found librep".
Now I've got some idea of how lib64 gets into the rep parts, I'll pursue pkgconfig.
Presumably we need a "pkgconfiglibdir", pity pkgconfig doesn't have its own pkgconfig.pc

Learning more internal build matters than I really want to know in my retirement.