Bug#723886: Don't flag pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir reports as error
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:
> The multiarch -L path is coming from `gpgme-config --libs`.
> The maintainer took the advice and tried to move the .pc file to a
> multiarch location (even though the library itself was not
> multiarchified). This resulted in [1].
Yes, at the least the message should make clear that you have to multiarch
the whole package to fix this.
> As we found out, pkg-config actually strips such library system search paths:
> $ pkg-config --static --libs gmime-2.6 -pthread -lgmime-2.6 -lnsl -lgpgme-pthread -lassuan -lgpg-error -lpthread -lgio-2.0 -lz -lresolv -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgobject-2.0 -lffi -lglib-2.0 -lpcre
Is that true if you run that command on the "wrong" architecture? In
other words, I would expect it to strip out the multiarch path that
matches your local system, but if you run the same command on (say) arm
with the same file, for it to *not* strip out the path. Which potentially
causes problems.
> It seems reasonable to therefore downgrade this message to a warning.
Warning does seem like the right level regardless, since most of the
circumstances under which this can actually break something are fairly
obscure.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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