On Mon 05 May 2014 00:36:57 Matt Caswell via RT wrote: > This patch changes the output of "pkg-config --libs libssl" from: > -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto > to: > -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl > > Arguably this is the strictly "correct" approach. However in practice I > suspect many build scripts will rely on this behaviour and break as a > result of this change. I'm not sure its worth it for slightly cleaner .pc > files. > > For that reason I am rejecting this patch in its current form.
i don't understand your logic. first, pkg-config files are a bit new, so the number of packages utilizing them are low at this point. the ones that i have personally converted upstream are doing the right thing. the only way this would break is if you were using pkg-config wrongly and trying to build static programs w/out the --static flag to pkg-config. but then again, you'd break with a lot more things than just openssl. finally, i've been using this patch in Gentoo since openssl first added .pc files. we have yet to see a package fail to build here. so trying to protect unknown broken build systems from being broken to the detriment of correct working build systems makes no sense. -mike
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