1From 32944bbdbf2c7611e72ec9828464978ca42824ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2From: Jakob Kukla <jakob.kukla@gmail.com>
3Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:31:22 +0000
4Subject: [PATCH] cmake: support absolute paths for install dirs in pkg-config
5
6The GNUInstallDirs module supports absolute paths for CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR and CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR. Some package managers like Nix depend on this behaviour. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/144170 for the nixpkgs tracking issue.
7---
8 host/CMakeLists.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
9 host/uhd.pc.in | 4 ++--
10 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
11
12diff --git a/host/CMakeLists.txt b/host/CMakeLists.txt
13index 3e93ea1f0c..4cd0afad9d 100644
14--- a/host/CMakeLists.txt
15+++ b/host/CMakeLists.txt
16@@ -559,6 +559,18 @@ if(CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
17 set(UHD_PC_LIBS)
18 endif(CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
19
20+# Support absolute paths for LIBDIR and INCLUDEDIR
21+if(IS_ABSOLUTE "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}")
22+ set(UHD_PC_LIBDIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}")
23+else()
24+ set(UHD_PC_LIBDIR "\${exec_prefix}/${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}")
25+endif()
26+if(IS_ABSOLUTE "${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}")
27+ set(UHD_PC_INCLUDEDIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}")
28+else()
29+ set(UHD_PC_INCLUDEDIR "\${prefix}/${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}")
30+endif()
31+
32 configure_file(
33 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/uhd.pc.in
34 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/uhd.pc
35diff --git a/host/uhd.pc.in b/host/uhd.pc.in
36index 4a5f67c969..f121e2fb70 100644
37--- a/host/uhd.pc.in
38+++ b/host/uhd.pc.in
39@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
40 prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
41 exec_prefix=${prefix}
42-libdir=${exec_prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR@
43-includedir=${prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR@
44+libdir=@UHD_PC_LIBDIR@
45+includedir=@UHD_PC_INCLUDEDIR@
46
47 Name: @CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME@
48 Description: @CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY@