jsoncpp/pkg-config
Baptiste Jonglez 101fcf0806 Fix compilation errors for downstream projects caused by incorrect pkgconfig paths
Recent commit 911e2b0fea ("By default use <prefix> relative paths when
installing") introduced relative install paths in CMake.  But this
interacts badly with commit e6f1cffdd3 from a year ago: now, the paths in
`pkgconfig/jsoncpp.pc` are relative, which is incorrect.

Before 911e2b0fea (1.7.2 on Archlinux), this was correct:

    $ head -4 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/jsoncpp.pc
    prefix=/usr
    exec_prefix=${prefix}
    libdir=/usr/lib
    includedir=/usr/include

After 911e2b0fea (1.7.3 on Archlinux), this is now incorrect:

    $ head -4 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/jsoncpp.pc
    prefix=/usr
    exec_prefix=${prefix}
    libdir=lib
    includedir=include

This change causes hard-to-debug compilation errors for projects that
depend on jsoncpp, for instance:

    CXXLD    libring.la
    /tmp/ring-daemon/src/ring-daemon/src/../libtool: line 7486: cd: lib: No such file or directory
    libtool:   error: cannot determine absolute directory name of 'lib'
    make[3]: *** [Makefile:679: libring.la] Error 1

This is because jsoncpp contributes `-Llib -ljsoncpp` to the LDFLAGS, via
the pkg-config machinery.  Notice the relative path in `-Llib`.

To fix this, simply revert commit e6f1cffdd3 ("Fix custom includedir &
libdir substitution in pkg-config").  The change in 911e2b0fea should have
the same effect.

See #279, #470 for references.
2016-07-08 00:46:04 +02:00
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