Re: pkg-config

[Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>]

> > Here is one though that directly impacts me and my code :) In
> > Nautilus we need to search for GNOME help files in
> > /usr/share/gnome/help (or $(gnome_libs_prefix)/share/gnome/help
> > really).
...
> OK, that's reasonable. I'll add those options.

Well, but really they want to look in $(gnome_libs_prefix) AND in each
component of $GNOME_PATH. Given that someone else commented on certain
functions searching $(gnome_libs_prefix) but ignoring GNOME_PATH,
maybe it would be best to not let pkg-config tell you gnome-libs's
prefix, but instead have a gnome-libs function that searches for
files/paths in each of the possible directories (its own compiled-in
prefix, plus the GNOME_PATH paths), and make people use that to make
sure that future functions don't require installing things into
gnome-libs's prefix.

-- Dan