Hi Al, 2011/6/28 Albert Chu <[email protected]>
> Oh ... > (...) I'm not personally familiar with the use of pkg-config. With what I see > online, shouldn't autoconf/configure be more than suitable? I suppose > if it doesn't break the normal autoconf/automake, then I'd be fine > adding a patch. Is it used alongside other build systems?? > > pkg-config is complementary to autoconf/configure, in that it simplifies the detection and tests of build deps: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config there are simple macros: http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/pkgconfig/pkg_check_modules.html and also the capability to create more advanced .m4 macros, as we did for NUT: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/nut/trunk/m4/nut_check_libpowerman.m4?revision=2821&view=markup Jim Garlick (who's also a friend) can argue on this, since IIRC I sent the pkg-config patch for PowerMan, used in the above m4... And the same patch is attached for FreeIPMI ;-) Please consider merging it. BTW, you may also be interested in removing autogen.sh for autoreconf: http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/autoconf/autoreconf-Invocation.html cheers, Arno -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://powerquality.eaton.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
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