On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:17:32AM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: >David Dawes wrote: >> 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. > >Assuming distribution packagers do their job, the .pc files will end up in >the right place.
I think you have your perspective backwards. Autotools is supposed to handle system differences for the software package, not impose requirements on the underlying system. X libraries are already installed on countless systems, and they're not going to magically acquire .pc files just because you say you need them. If an autotooled package requires them, the autotooled package is broken. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
