On Thursday 24 May 2012 17:14:30 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 24 May 2012 16:31:04 Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > > Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> writes: > > > Newer versions of openssl ship with pkg-config files, so if we can > > > detect it via those, do so. If that fails, fall back to the classic > > > method. > > > > thanks for your contribution. It seems like a big change in the way > > configure will work. I think that if we want to use pkg-config then we > > should use it for any external library involved, not just openssl. > > zlib, pcre, uuid, and gnutls can be updated to search pkg-config, but > gcrypt and gpg-error cannot because the upstream there is being > pig-headed. > > plus, requiring .pc files from these libs would imply a recent version for > some since many haven't started providing them until recently. > > i don't personally have a problem requiring information to be provided by > .pc files when the respective projects have started offering them in > recent versions, but others might. and seeing as how i'm not the > maintainer, i don't get to make the final decision. > > lemme know which way you want to go, and i can send out an update that also > checks for zlib/pcre/uuid/gnutls via pkg-config.
ping ... -mike
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