[Fedora-packaging] Packaging a noarch pkgconfig library?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/29/2010 01:53 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm packaging gnome-js-common, which contains some JavaScript
> libraries intended to be used from gjs and seed (the latter is also
> being packaged). It contains only noarch .js files, so I'm intending
> to make the entire package noarch, but it also provides a .pc file.
>
> It turns out that, on x86_64, the 64-bit pkgconfig does *not* pick up
> files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig by default, which I guess is a good thing
> in most situations. However, in this case it does make for an annoying
> situation.
>
> 1) Overriding PKG_CONFIG_PATH is a bad idea. What if a program needs
> gnome-js-common (which is noarch) and some arch-dependent libs that
> also use pkgconfig for dependency tracking? It might erroneously
> satisfy 64-bit dependencies with 32-bit ones.
>
> 2) Putting the .pc file in both /usr/lib64/pkgconfig *and*
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig would require co-owning /usr/lib64/pkgconfig
>
> Should I just leave the package as arch-dependent even though it is not?

noarch-package's *.pc's are supposed to be installed into
/usr/share/pkgconfig

Ralf