On 14.03.2014 12:11, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:44:27AM +0000, Philip Martin wrote: >> I still don't understand what is being attempted. SVN_INTL_LIBS is some >> Windows feature. Why do we need to support it on Unix? Can we just >> leave it empty? Why put in extra code to move '-lintl' from LIBS to >> SVN_INTL_LIBS? > pkg-config needs to provide accurate linker flags to applications > linking to Subversion. If libsvn_subr requires -lintl to link, > then -lintl needs to be listed in the pkg-config file for libsvn_subr. > > As I understand so far, -lintl is not required on Linux but is > required on other systems like Mac OS X or *BSD. > > The pkg-config generator derives linker flags like -lintl from > variables like SVN_INTL_LIBS, which are referenced in build.conf. > E.g. SVN_INTL_LIBS is referenced by the [intl] section in build.conf.
And of course you can't tweak the generator to ignore symbols that are not expanded, is that what you're saying? :) -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
