On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:22:12AM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: >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.
I can only recall one case in my own experience where an autotooled program had a problem concerning X-related libs. Ironically those were exactly the libs that had pkgconfig support. The autotool and pkgconfig combination didn't know where to look for the needed .pc files. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
