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Benoit Chesneau commented on COUCHDB-1012:
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neither is erlang :) We could make it a requirements for couchdb install.
pkg-config is now installed by default on openbsd, not sure for other but I
think it's now coming with xorg installation and in otther cases is easily
installable via the package manager. ON OSX it's easily installable via
homebrew, macports and fink.
But, since we need to be multiplatform, maybe having a tiny script would do the
trick better? One advantage of pkg-config is that's it can be now handle in
autotools.
Some links:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pkg-config/2007-August/000219.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2164089/using-pkg-config-with-autotools
http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/pkgconfig/index.html
Also pkg-config is a common tool across platforms.
> Utility to help plugin developers manage paths
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-1012
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1012
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Build System
> Reporter: Randall Leeds
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> Developers may want to write plugins (like GeoCouch) for CouchDB. Many hooks
> in the configuration system allow loading arbitrary Erlang modules to handle
> various internal tasks, but currently there is no straightforward and
> portable way for developers of these plugins to discover the location of the
> CouchDB library files.
> Two options that have been proposed are to use pkg-config or install a
> separate script that could be invoked (e.g. as couch-config --erl-libs) to
> discover important CouchDB installation paths.
> As far as I know the loudest argument against pkg-config is lack of support
> for Windows.
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