David Dawes wrote: > That some libs have pkg-config support shouldn't be seen as indicative > of anything in particular. All of them are distributed separately > by their primary author, which isn't true of the other libs in the > XFree86 source tree. It's likely that all of them will be moved to the > xc/extras tree along with most other externally maintained components > in the XFree86 source tree.
If these libs provide the pkg-config functionality, it would be much easier for autotooled programs to find the libs and compiler options needed to compile themselves. If all libs are pkg-config'd it would allow the programs to take advantage of the pkg-config for any program. It will not hurt any of the current ways that X is currently supported. It will just add the option for programs to use pkg-config. > Do you have other reasons for adding pkg-config support? For example, > what would it buy us? I am doing some work to autoconf some of the programs from XFree86 at http://dri.freedesktop.org/~wt/autotoolizing/. I am very interested in working with the XFree86 community instead of trying to fork or some such. Adding this pkg-config to the libs would make autotooling much easier. I also think it could help any projects based on X and autotool-based build systems. Thanks, Warren -- President, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
