[pacman-dev] [PATCH] meson: make -uninstalled.pc correct

[Allan McRae]

On 19/4/21 1:25 pm, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> This pkg-config file is automatically created in the meson-uninstalled/
> directory of the build tree, and points to the built artifacts there. If
> this directory is added to PKG_CONFIG_PATH, it will be preferred over an
> installed copy.
> 
> Making this work properly means it becomes trivially possible to build a
> private copy of libalpm, and then compile other projects using it rather
> than the system copy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
> ---
> 
> I've been using this in combination with some custom patches to pyalpm
> (to actually use pkg-config), to generate statically linked pyalpm
> wheels that don't break every time the pacman-git ABI breaks.
> 

Looks fine to me.

>  meson.build | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 579ff2ed8..7b833571f 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ libalpm = library(
>    'alpm',
>    version : libalpm_version,
>    objects: libalpm_a.extract_all_objects(recursive: true),
> +  include_directories : includes,
>    dependencies : alpm_deps,
>    install : true)
>  
>