I have a flake with an output package.my-package
which contains a lib/pkgconfig/my-package.pc
.
In the devShell
of the same flake, I have this dubious hack
shellHook = ''
export MY_LIB=$PWD/install/my-package/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MY_LIB:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH;
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$MY_LIB/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH;
'';
which allows me to turn the error
Run-time dependency my-package found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
into
Run-time dependency my-package found: YES v0.1.10
in a local meson-based build of something that depends on my-package
.
I have a client flake which has my-package
as a build input and uses it as a dependency in an output package. When I try to build the latter, we get the earlier error once more
Run-time dependency my-package found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
I get the impression that I’m missing something fundamental about how pkg-config
should be used in Nix.
How should I ensure that the pkg-config
information provided by my-package
is found by its clients?