On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> the abi-wrapper doesnt look terribly appealing. why dont we use >> broken/custom >> -config handling as incentive to convert packages to .pc files. pkg-config >> handles ABI/cross-compile splitting cleanly and transparently. > > I am totally unfamiliar with pkg-config, so that would take some time or a > helping hand. >
You can take a look at http://is.gd/4fSfN for an overview (google cache of original since fdo downtime wiped home directories). I completely agree with Mike that pkg-config makes all this much simpler and consistent. >> bash-4 is stable, so we could start depending on it. > > It still has 3 unstable KEYWORDS including mips. > ~mips ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ^^ None of these arches do stable keywords... -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo
