On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:06:43PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: >David Dawes wrote: >> 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. > >Autotools do not require pkg-config. It just makes autotools significantly >easier to implement in a portable way for libs. > >> 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. > >Autotools do not require them...pkg-config just makes autoconf work a lot >easier. I could write custom autoconf macros that test for Xrender in >common locations, or we could put pkg-config support in and it would not >have to guess. The .pc files tell it where to find the libs.
I'd love to see your time machine. Dunno how else you're going to avoid writing those custom autoconf macros :-). David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
