On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:28:45PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: >I tried a while back to get the libX11 in XF86 to include pkgconfig files >needed to do this kind of thing. You all didn't see the point. I would >still like to do that if there is any interest in making autotools work >better with the XF86 built environment.
You can only rely on pkgconfig when everyone is using it. If you think about it, you are building the sorts of limitations into your "autotools" build system that you object to in the "imake" method. A real autotools build solution should work with whatever is thrown at it. It should adapt to the platforms it is presented with, not vice versa. I see no benefit to encouraging such a lazy approach to solving the build configuration problem. I acknowledge that there is one, but I find your "solution" flawed. Have you read "Gnu Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool" by Vaughan, et al? I posted a quick proof-of-concept example of a method that will do the same sort of thing as pkgconfig, but by leveraging the information available today with installations of XFree86 (and other traditional X installations) instead of relying on pkgconfig files being present. You entirely missed the point of that. Maybe it is because you are only interested in solving one part of the problem, and not in a true mix'n'match automatic build/config solution. >Well, how do I do that and easily make them link against my libs? Can I do >this for the entire tree? Instead of continually asking the same question because you don't like the answers you are getting, why don't you roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with a little work of your own? The source code is all there for you to read. David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
