Hi Arnaud, Applied the patch w/o problems. Thanks.
Al On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:56 -0700, Arnaud Quette wrote: > 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/ > > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
