On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 10:21 AM Ned Deily <n...@python.org> wrote: > Just to be clear, pkg-config is not part of any Posix standard, AFAIK, so you > cannot depend on it being available.
Understood. However, if that is not employed what reasonable method remains for implementing "Requires-External"? The only thing I can think of is to specify exact library or program names, like Requires-External gcc Requires-External libpng.so and those could be found by searching the whole directory tree. That might even be efficient if updatedb/locate are available. However going that way, how would one determine version compatibility on a library? Doing it through the package manager may be possible, but it is a multistep process: 1. lookup libpng.so -> PATHPNG 2. rpm -q --whatprovides $PATHPNG -> name of package 3. analyze "name of package" for version information Much easier one suspects to install pkg-config on systems which do not yet have it than to completely reimplement it. Does OS X have something which is equivalent to pkg-config, or is there just no way to look up this sort of information on that OS? Regards, David Mathog -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/BCYVPMEGXLU7YQJUCCQDV5BT7E22EH7M/
