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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:02:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: PKG_CONFIG_PATH and XFree86
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> Maybe this should be directed to cygwin-xfree. I don't know,
> really.
>
> I read there are plans to make fontconfig a package. It
> probably will go to /usr/lib along with FreeType (the
> standalone sources also include a .pc file for it), but this
> doesn't fix xcursor and xft.
>
> XFree86-prog installs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig/{fontconfig,xcursor,xft}.pc, but
> /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig isn't in pkg-config's search path.
>
> bash-2.05b$ pkg-config.exe --libs fontconfig
> Package fontconfig was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontconfig.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'fontconfig' found
>
> Testing /usr/lib/pkgconfig/openssl.pc:
>
> bash-2.05b$ pkg-config.exe --libs openssl
> -lssl -lcrypto
>
> Should pkg-config include /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig ? Should
> /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig be a symlink to /usr/lib/pkgconfig ?
> Should PKG_CONFIG_PATH be set in /etc/profile ?
>
> I just don't think the user should set PKG_CONFIG_PATH since
> XFree86 is part of Cygwin. Just my opinion.

It should probably be added in /etc/profile.d/fontconfig.sh (which can be
installed directly by XFree86-prog).  I guess this is an XFree-specific
issue...
	Igor
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