Bug#909778: libsdl2-dev: SDL_config.h no longer in cflags provided by pkg-config/sdl2-config

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 01:39:05PM +0000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 September 2018 5:06 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The following fixes it properly:
> > - revert the override_dh_install change, and
> > - add --includedir=\$${prefix}/include/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) to confflags
> 
> This won't do what you think it will. Unfortunately:
> 
> 1. All headers end up being installed into /usr/include/<triplet>/SDL2.
>    -- Not what we want.

This is not a problem.

> 2. /usr/include/<triplet>/SDL2 is hard-coded into sdl2-config, causing a file
>     conflict for multi-arch installations.
>...

This is actually a problem.

The minimal fix for that problem would be to add a dependency on 
pkg-config to libsdl2-dev, and then do
     --cflags)
-      echo -I at includedir@/SDL2 @SDL_CFLAGS@
+      pkg-config --cflags sdl2
       ;;

cu
Adrian

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