So, another Alien question. I have two C libraries. One depends on the other. (Actually, it's more of a one-of-many dependencies, but this way it easiest). How is best to arrange for this to happen then?
Outside of perl/Alien wrappings, this is a purely manual process. Install first library (as root) so its pkg-config file is created, then the Makefile in the second library finds this, adds cflags/ldflags, all well and good. But Aliens complicate this, because of the requirement that non-root users can install and use them. This requires the first library to get installed somewhere in perl's @INC where the user can write. pkg-config won't automatically look there. This is OK for the Alien layer because the Alien/Foo.pm can know where to find the pkg-config file. But the second C library's Makefile can't. So how is it going to find the first one? I am beginning to think that this requirement that non-root users be able to install C libraries into non-system standard places is getting problematic. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/
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