Am 18.03.2010 19:54, schrieb Behdad Esfahbod: > Hey, > > I have a minor proposal for library maintainers: Move .pc files for each > library to the src directory for the library itself. > > The benefit is mostly during development. I personally do "make install" in > the src dir only, because if I do that in the toplevel, I have to wait an > extra hour for gtk-doc to finish generating docs for the installation.
For which module does it take *one hour* for you? git head version again is notably faster :) Stefan > "make > install" in src/ works fine for the most part except that it doesn't install > the pkg-config file. So for example I do "make install" in vte/src updated to > master, then go building gnome-terminal and still get a version error for vte. > Because the new .pc file is not installed. > > By grouping the .pc file and the library itself, these kind of issues are > avoided. > > A couple minor issues with doing this are: > > - The uninstalled.pc files need to remain in toplevel to be useful. Means, > they will be separated from .pc files > > - For packages shipping multiple libraries, the .pc files will not be > gathered in one place anymore. > > I don't think any of those two is a major issue. > > What do people think? > > Cheers, > behdad > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
