On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 05:37:25PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Clément Bœsch <u <at> pkh.me> writes: > > > Carl, do you want the fallback to work just when > > pkg-config is not available > > I believe this would still leave some use-cases > unsolved. > > > or do you actually want a real fallback when it is > > present but didn't succeed? > > This is the preferred solution imo. > > > (the second solution is way uglier to solve) > > You had already sent a patch iirc. >
No it won't work because require_pkg_config dies if it fails, so you can fallback after it. Of course we can add another require_pkg_config2() that takes some explicit linking flags in addition to the user ones as a fallback. But really that's insane, because I know you will end-up hardcoding all kind of linker flags to these fallback calls, and this defeat completely the purpose of such simplified code. They will also almost never be tested, and will be incorrect almost every single time. I don't want that, and I'd prefer if we error out properly saying something as obvious as "libXXX detection needs pkg-config, please get install it and retry" + some documentation (doc/*texi and ./configure --help). -- Clément B.
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